outgrowth

outgrowth
/owt"grohth'/, n.
1. a natural development, product, or result: to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
2. an additional, supplementary result.
3. a growing out or forth.
4. something that grows out; offshoot; excrescence.
[1830-40; OUT- + GROWTH]

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