outgrowth
noun
out·growth
ˈau̇t-ˌgrōth 
1
: a process or product of growing out
an outgrowth of hair
2
: consequence, by-product
crime is often an outgrowth of poverty
Examples of outgrowth in a Sentence
trimmed back some of the tree's outgrowths so they wouldn't interfere with the power lines
a predictable outgrowth of the suburb's ever growing population will be the need for more schools
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Next there was the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an outgrowth of the 2008 financial collapse and a long standing target of the financial services industry.
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Claudia Weicker, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2025
Her compassion and forgiveness and understanding are an outgrowth of her love for him as a friend and probably her closest friend.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2025
That’s a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr., whose holiday—yet another irony, probably sadder than the others but no less natural an outgrowth of this nation’s continually multiplying paradoxes—was made, this year, to share space with the unstinting agitator of the Central Park Five.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Hunter, fisherman, chef and award-winning author Jesse Griffiths and Tamara Mayfield opened Dai Due restaurant and butcher shop in 2014 as an outgrowth of their popular supper club and farmers market stand, and the seasonal and local ethos of a farmers market is the anchor of this rustic beauty.
—USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
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Claudia Weicker, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2025
Her compassion and forgiveness and understanding are an outgrowth of her love for him as a friend and probably her closest friend.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2025
That’s a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr., whose holiday—yet another irony, probably sadder than the others but no less natural an outgrowth of this nation’s continually multiplying paradoxes—was made, this year, to share space with the unstinting agitator of the Central Park Five.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Hunter, fisherman, chef and award-winning author Jesse Griffiths and Tamara Mayfield opened Dai Due restaurant and butcher shop in 2014 as an outgrowth of their popular supper club and farmers market stand, and the seasonal and local ethos of a farmers market is the anchor of this rustic beauty.
—USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Outgrowth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outgrowth. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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outgrowth
noun
out·growth
ˈau̇t-ˌgrōth
1
: something that grows out of or develops from something else
Medical Definition
outgrowth
noun
out·growth
ˈau̇t-ˌgrōth
1
: the process of growing out
in vitro, dopamine modifies axonal and dendritic outgrowth—Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes2
: something that grows directly out of something else
an outgrowth of hair
a bony outgrowth
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