Definition of "outgrowth" []

• The act or process of growing out. (noun)
• A product of growing out; a projecting part or offshoot: an outgrowth of new shoots on a branch. (noun)
• A result or consequence: Inflation is an outgrowth of war. (noun)

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• "This doesn't mean that the NASA team "stole" the concept from DIRECT, but it indicates that this concept is a natural outgrowth from a desire to place these large shuttle payloads in orbit."
• "White, the self-proclaimed leader of the American National Socialist Workers Party, described by authorities as a hate group, is charged under a new law that was an outgrowth from the killings of two family members of a Chicago judge."
• "Nerve fibre outgrowth from the chick ganglion is determined after 24 hours."