Offshoot vs Kindred - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between offshoot and kindred

is that offshoot is that which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree while kindred is distant and close relatives, collectively.

As an adjective kindred is

of the same nature.

offshoot

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(wikipedia offshoot) (en noun)

That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

Synonyms

* spinoff

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kindred

English

Noun

(en noun)

(often, plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively. (rfex)

(often, plural only) Peoples of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren. (rfex)

(countable) A grouping of relatives.

* Shakespeare

I think there's no man is secure / But the queen's kindred .

Synonyms

* (people of same ethnic descent) brethren, kinship

Noun

(en noun)

A combination of extended family and religious group, of the religious order in America.

Synonyms

* Hearth * Garth * Stead

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Adjective

(-)

Of the same nature.

* 1924 , , Metaphysics , translated by W. D. Ross, Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001, book 1, part 1.

We have said in the Ethics what the difference is between art and science and the other kindred faculties;