All outgrowth synonyms

noun outgrowth

• extension — A part that is added to something to enlarge or prolong it; a continuation.
• result — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
• product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
• consequence — The consequences of something are the results or effects of it.
• effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
• development — Development is the gradual growth or formation of something.
• outcome — a final product or end result; consequence; issue.
• by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
• offshoot — a branch or lateral shoot from a main stem, as of a plant.
• aftereffect — The aftereffects of an event, experience, or substance are the conditions which result from it.
• branch — The branches of a tree are the parts that grow out from its trunk and have leaves, flowers, or fruit growing on them.
• derivative — A derivative is something which has been developed or obtained from something else.
• descendant — Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
• emergence — The process of coming into view or becoming exposed after being concealed.
• end — Come or bring to a final point; finish.
• issue — the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
• member — a person, animal, plant, group, etc., that is part of a society, party, community, taxon, or other body.
• offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
• spin-off — Commerce. a process of reorganizing a corporate structure whereby the capital stock of a division or subsidiary of a corporation or of a newly affiliated company is transferred to the stockholders of the parent corporation without an exchange of any part of the stock of the latter. Compare split-off (def 3), split-up (def 3).
• yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
• projection — a projecting or protruding part. Synonyms: overhang, protrusion, jut.
• bulge — If something such as a person's stomach bulges, it sticks out.
• enlargement — The action or state of enlarging or being enlarged.
• excrescence — A distinct outgrowth on a human or animal body or on a plant, especially one that is the result of disease or abnormality.
• jut — to extend beyond the main body or line; project; protrude (often followed by out): The narrow strip of land juts out into the bay.
• node — a knot, protuberance, or knob.
• outcrop — Geology. a cropping out, as of a stratum or vein at the surface of the earth. the exposed portion of such a stratum or vein.
• process — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
• prolongation — the act of prolonging: the prolongation of a line.
• prominence — Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
• protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
• shoot — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
• sprout — to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
• swelling — the act of swelling or the condition of being swollen.