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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Outgrowth \Out"growth`\, n.
That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an
excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
資料來源 : WordNet®
outgrowth
n 1: a natural consequence of development [syn: {branch}, {offshoot},
{offset}]
2: the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage
the emergence of sculpture in Greece" [syn: {emergence}, {growth}]
3: a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an
organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" [syn: {process},
{appendage}]