offspringing

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adjective

Springing off or outward; developing from something else.

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Meanings

adjectiveoffspringing (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSpringing off or outward; developing from something else.

    […] such tumours arise almost always from bone, and we see in the bony development an evidence of the continuance of the nature of the mother tissue into the nature of the offspringing tumour.

    1875, Sir Samuel Wilks, Walter Moxon, Lectures on Pathological Anatomy, page 648

Origin

From off + springing.

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APA

offspringing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/offspringing

MLA

“offspringing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/offspringing. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “offspringing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/offspringing.

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