Bough vs Offshoot - What's the difference?
bough | offshoot | Related terms |
A firm branch of a tree.
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, passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 18. p. 172.
That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
Bough is a related term of offshoot.
As nouns the difference between bough and offshoot
is that bough is a firm branch of a tree while offshoot is that which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc; as, the offshoots of a tree.bough
English
Noun
(en noun)- A pair of birds settle on the bough above them, murmuring together, ready to roost.