Offspringing

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Springing off or outward; developing from something else. not-comparable

    "[…] such tumours arise almost always from bone, and we see in the bony development an evidence of the continuance of the nature of the mother tissue into the nature of the offspringing tumour."

Example

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"[…] such tumours arise almost always from bone, and we see in the bony development an evidence of the continuance of the nature of the mother tissue into the nature of the offspringing tumour."

Etymology

From off + springing.

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