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offspringing

offspringing adjective: springing off or outward; developing from something else.

Adjective

offspringing (not comparable)

  1. Springing 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 of offspringing

From off + springing.

Questions about offspringing

What does offspringing mean?
Offspringing means springing off or outward; developing from something else.
What part of speech is offspringing?
Offspringing is an adjective.

Words near offspringing in the dictionary

  1. offspinners
  2. offsplit
  3. offsplits
  4. offsplitting
  5. offspring
  6. offspringing
  7. offspringless
  8. offsprings
  9. offstage
  10. offstaged
  11. offstages

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