What is the difference between outgrowth and outgrow?
outgrowth | outgrow | Derived terms |
Anything that grows out of something else.
# A branch or offshoot of a plant.
# An appendage of an animal.
# A byproduct or consequence of an action or event.
To become too big or mature for some purpose.
To leave some object, habit, belief ... behind, no longer need or use it, as one grows.
To grow faster or taller than something or someone else.
Outgrowth is a derived term of outgrow.
As a noun outgrowth
is anything that grows out of something else.As a verb outgrow is
to become too big or mature for some purpose.outgrowth
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(en noun)Derived terms
* neurite outgrowth * neuronal outgrowthoutgrow
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- ''Poor boys often have to wear whatever a big brother has outgrown .
- ''The best adapted plant varieties tend to outgrow the other.