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Definition of Outshoots
1. outshoot [v] - See also: outshoot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outshoots
Literary usage of Outshoots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1871)
"Here the scleral tissue was extremely thin, and appeared frayed on the outer
surface, sending short outshoots into the mass of the extra-bulbar growth. ..."
2. Old English Country Cottages by Charles Holme (1907)
"In a later development it was increased in width by the addition of outshoots at
the side, like the transept of a church, much in the same manner that the ..."
3. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1899)
"These woods, however, spurs or outshoots of the great forests which once stretched
northward from the Forest of Sherwood itself, have been the abode of ..."
4. Popular Science Monthly (1914)
"... eruption described, irregular streaks of ash such as the one just noted prove
that there were minor outshoots of volcanic dust in various directions. ..."
5. The Century (1902)
"Upon a reversal of the current, an entirely different phenomenon was observed.
Instead of the branching outshoots of violet light, there appeared plume-like ..."
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