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Offshoot vs Lineage - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between offshoot and lineage

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 lineage is descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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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    lineage

    English

    Alternative forms

    * linage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=July 19 , author=Ella Davies , title=Sticks insects survive one million years without sex , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction. }}
  • (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
  • * 1927 , William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical
    • Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region

    Related terms

    * line * lineal * linear

    See also

    * genealogy

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