offshoot

noun

1 the cactus grew some offshoots:

side shoot, shoot, sucker, tendril, runner, scion, slip, offset, sprout, sprig, stem, twig, branch, bough, limb, spur;

technical stolon.

▷antonyms trunk.

2 an offshoot of Thomas Cromwell's line:

descendant, scion, relation, relative.

3 offshoots of big firms or finance houses:

subsidiary, branch, derivative, adjunct, appendage.

4 one practical offshoot of the growth of interest in heritage is the growth of tourism:

outcome, result, effect, consequence, upshot, product, byproduct, spin-off, ramification, development, outgrowth.