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outgrowth |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Outgrowth \Out"growth`\, n. That which grows out of or proceeds from anything an excrescence; an offshoot; hence a result or consequence. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: outgrowth n 1: a natural consequence of development [syn: {branch}, {offshoot}, {offset}] 2: the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" [syn: {emergence}, {growth}] 3: a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" [syn: {process}, {appendage}]
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