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Definition of Offshoots
1. offshoot [n] - See also: offshoot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offshoots
Literary usage of Offshoots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"FRUITS REPLACED BY offshoots. By Annual Plants are understood such as germinate,
grow, and conclude their flowering and fruiting within the limits of a ..."
2. General pathology, or, The science of the causes, nature and course of the by Ernst Ziegler (1895)
"Development of a blood-vessel by formation of offshoots, ... Formative cells have
applied themselves to the outside of the offshoots. or at the same time ..."
3. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"From such specimen- positive proof is obtained that the cells of hyaline cartilage
have solid offshoots. These offshoots emanate mostly from the body of the ..."
4. Mines and Mining: A Commentary on the Law of Mines and Mining Rights, Both by Wilson Isaac Snyder (1902)
"Extra-lateral rights to spurs and offshoots.— The question of extra-lateral
rights, as applied to spurs and offshoots, is not well settled; some authorities ..."
5. Bioplasm: An Introduction to the Study of Physiology & Medicine by Lionel Smith Beale (1872)
"He tells us that " at last the calcification of the intercellular substance ensues !
" 211. The offshoots do not correspond to the cana, ..."
6. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"... stream of the Padma, which is here the main channel of the GANGES ; and all
the numerous waterways of the District are offshoots of that great river. ..."
7. The Date Palm and Its Utilization in the Southwestern States by Walter Tennyson Swingle (1904)
"This was done because this palm had ceased to produce offshoots before its value
was recognized. Many of these seedling dates have fruited, ..."
8. The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective by Angus Maddison (2001)
"Net Migration: Western Europe, Japan and Western offshoots, 1870-1998 (000, ...
The advanced capitalist countries (Western Europe, Western offshoots and ..."
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