Word Meanings - OFFSHOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OFFSHOOT)

• Branch
• Member
• bifurcation
• bough
• limb
• offspring
• shoot
• spray
• sprig
• twig
• ramification
• offshoot
• relative
• scion
• Progeny
• Offspring
• young
• issue
• descendants
• posterity
• race
• Ramification
• Branching
• branch
• division
• divergence
• subdivision
• Scion
• Slip
• cadet
• child

Related words: (words related to OFFSHOOT)

• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BOUGHT
  1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne. 2. The part of a sling that contains the stone.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• ISSUE
  1. To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank. 2. To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions. 3. To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• BRANCHLESS
  Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• SHOOTING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. 2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically , the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain;
• SCION
  A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker. 2. Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
• SPRIGGED
  Having sprigs.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• BRANCHING
  Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• MEMBER
  A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office. Rom. xii. 4. 2. Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body; as: A part
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• PODOBRANCH
  One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
• ASPIDOBRANCHIA
  A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
  Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
• REISSUE
  To issue a second time.
• EPIBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• HYPOBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
  See -ATE (more info) & n.