outgrowth

out·growth  (outgrth)

n.

1. The act or process of growing out.

2. A product of growing out; a projecting part or offshoot: an outgrowth of new shoots on a branch.

3. A result or consequence: Inflation is an outgrowth of war.

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outgrowth

Noun

1. a natural development or consequence: he argued that religion was an outgrowth of magic

2. a thing growing out of a main body; offshoot

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	outgrowth - a natural consequence of development offshoot, branch, offset consequence, effect, result, upshot, outcome, event, issue - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"
	2.	outgrowth - the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" emergence, growth beginning - the event consisting of the start of something; "the beginning of the war" rise - a growth in strength or number or importance
	3.	outgrowth - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" appendage, process horn - one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates horn - any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn crest - a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal pseudopod, pseudopodium - temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion flagellum - a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa) hair - a filamentous projection or process on an organism cirrus - a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile spine - a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin aculea - small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects style - a slender bristlelike or tubular process; "a cartilaginous style" villus - a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane tail - the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body fetlock - projection behind and above a horse's hoof tentacle - any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion arista - bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity acromial process, acromion - the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade ala - a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism; "the alae of the nose"; "the alae of a maple seed"; "the flat petals of a pea blossom are alae" alveolar arch - the part of the upper or lower jawbones in which the teeth are set alveolar process, alveolar ridge, gum ridge - a ridge that forms the borders of the upper and lower jaws and contains the sockets of the teeth acrosome - a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg caruncle, caruncula - an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds condyle - a round bump on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone coronoid process, processus coronoideus - a sharp triangular process projecting from a bone epicondyle - a projection on a bone above a condyle serving for the attachment of muscles and ligaments fimbria - thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube) apophysis - (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra spicule, spiculum - small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals osteophyte - small abnormal bony outgrowth papilla - a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather papilla - a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell; "the papillae of the tongue" cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, vermiform process, appendix - a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch mastoid, mastoid bone, mastoid process, mastoidal - process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull styloid process - extends from the base of the temporal bone pterygoid process - two bony processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone tuberosity, eminence, tubercle - a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament zygomatic process - a slender process of the temporal bone that strengthens the zygomatic arch trochanter - one of the bony prominences developed near the upper extremity of the femur to which muscles are attached transverse process - one of two processes that extend from each vertebra and provide the point of articulation for the ribs odontoid process - a toothlike process at the back of 2nd vertebra of the neck metaphysis - the growing part of a long bone between the diaphysis and the epiphysis

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outgrowth

noun 1. product, result, development, fruit, consequence, outcome, legacy, emergence, derivative, spin-off, by-product, end result, offshoot, upshot

noun 2. offshoot, shoot, branch, limb, projection, sprout, node, outcrop, appendage, scion, protuberance, excrescence