outgrowth
(ˈaʊtgrəʊθ)
[out- 7.]
The process of growing out; that which grows (normally or abnormally) out of or from anything; a growth, an offshoot; an excrescence.
| 1837 H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 52 Those who dislike the mere mention of the outgrowth of individual property. 1857–8 Sears Athan. viii. 66 Death is the removal of an outgrowth after it has accomplished its functions and become a hindrance. 1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teach. xii. 233 It is not an external addition, but an internal outgrowth. |
b. fig. Of things immaterial: A natural product.
| 1850 Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 123 The immediate outgrowths of the Socratic philosophy and discipline. 1860 Smiles Self-Help i. 2 Only the outgrowth of our own perverted life. 1857 Maine Hist. Inst. vii. 223 Primogeniture is not a natural outgrowth of the family. |