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What is an offshoot?

What is an offshoot? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.
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Around the time of Epicurus, a number of offshoot sects of Cyrenaicism sprung up.
The Crows were an offshoot of the Hidatsas, and they made summer journeys east to trade with the descendants of their forebears.
The experience gained there obviously didn't go astray as she now has a thriving business, which developed as an offshoot to the Country Markets.
After a female offshoot is planted, it will be five years before there is a commercial crop of 30-40 pounds of dates.
In some cases, a start-up's rescuer turns out to be the offshoot of a big company that is sweeping up many small players.
Freud's metapsychology can be seen as a special offshoot or sub-division of metaphysics.

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