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offshoot

 noun
     
Related topics: Plants
off‧shoot [countable]
1 something such as an organization which has developed from a larger or earlier one
offshoot of
The company was originally an offshoot of Bell Telephones.
the Mafia and its offshoots
2HBP a new stem or branch on a plant
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