What does "outgrowth" mean?
Anything that grows out of something else.; A branch or offshoot of a plant.
Outgrowth
/ˈaʊtˌɡroʊθ/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Anything that grows out of something else.; A branch or offshoot of a plant.
- Grammar: outgrowth is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: appendage, apophysis, appendages, artifact.
- Useful contrasts: healthy tissue, indentation, normal tissue.
- Usage evidence: I wonder what would have been, if administrators had chosen Chabacano, Philippine Creole Spanish, as an official language in the Philippines, much as administrators had chosen Tok Pisin, an English-based creole, as an official language in Papua New Guinea. Today, Filipinos wax nostalgic and poetic of the bygone Hispanic Era. After the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico retained Spanish, but not the Philippines. Like an effervescent pink drink, English is now the main written language in the Philippines. However, the de facto aural-oral lingua franca in the archipelago is Taglish, the patois of code-switching between the two official languages, Filipino (Tagalog essentially) and English. Chabacano (Chavacano) combines Spanish with native elements. There is in Chabacano no verbal conjugation that does exist in Spanish, Tagalog, and English, which complicates these languages. Native languages in the Philippines have oodles of Spanish-derived words embedded in them. Native languages are of the Austronesian family, said to have originated thousands of years ago in Taiwan. About 200 languages exist in the Philippines. Most of them are of the Austronesian family, whilst Chabacano, an outgrowth of Hispanic colonization, sprouted like mushrooms in various places there.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Anything that grows out of something else.; A branch or offshoot of a plant. countable, uncountable
- 2 a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant wordnet
- 3 Anything that grows out of something else.; An appendage of an animal. countable, uncountable
- 4 the gradual beginning or coming forth wordnet
- 5 Anything that grows out of something else.; A byproduct or consequence of an action or event. countable, uncountable
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- 6 a natural consequence of development wordnet
- 7 Excessive growth. countable, uncountable
Synonyms
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Example
"I wonder what would have been, if administrators had chosen Chabacano, Philippine Creole Spanish, as an official language in the Philippines, much as administrators had chosen Tok Pisin, an English-based creole, as an official language in Papua New Guinea. Today, Filipinos wax nostalgic and poetic of the bygone Hispanic Era. After the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico retained Spanish, but not the Philippines. Like an effervescent pink drink, English is now the main written language in the Philippines. However, the de facto aural-oral lingua franca in the archipelago is Taglish, the patois of code-switching between the two official languages, Filipino (Tagalog essentially) and English. Chabacano (Chavacano) combines Spanish with native elements. There is in Chabacano no verbal conjugation that does exist in Spanish, Tagalog, and English, which complicates these languages. Native languages in the Philippines have oodles of Spanish-derived words embedded in them. Native languages are of the Austronesian family, said to have originated thousands of years ago in Taiwan. About 200 languages exist in the Philippines. Most of them are of the Austronesian family, whilst Chabacano, an outgrowth of Hispanic colonization, sprouted like mushrooms in various places there."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "outgrowth"?
Common synonyms include: appendage, apophysis, appendages, artifact, benign tumor, brainchild.
How do you use "outgrowth" in a sentence?
I wonder what would have been, if administrators had chosen Chabacano, Philippine Creole Spanish, as an official language in the Philippines, much as administrators had chosen Tok Pisin, an English-based creole, as an official language in Papua New Guinea. Today, Filipinos wax nostalgic and poetic of the bygone Hispanic Era. After the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico retained Spanish, but not the Philippines. Like an effervescent pink drink, English is now the main written language in the Philippines. However, the de facto aural-oral lingua franca in the archipelago is Taglish, the patois of code-switching between the two official languages, Filipino (Tagalog essentially) and English. Chabacano (Chavacano) combines Spanish with native elements. There is in Chabacano no verbal conjugation that does exist in Spanish, Tagalog, and English, which complicates these languages. Native languages in the Philippines have oodles of Spanish-derived words embedded in them. Native languages are of the Austronesian family, said to have originated thousands of years ago in Taiwan. About 200 languages exist in the Philippines. Most of them are of the Austronesian family, whilst Chabacano, an outgrowth of Hispanic colonization, sprouted like mushrooms in various places there.
How do you pronounce "outgrowth"?
Pronounced /ˈaʊtˌɡroʊθ/.
Etymology
From out- + growth.