'offshoots' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a branch or part that has developed from a larger group or from something else. For example, "Through the years, many offshoots of the original business have been established in different locations."
Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen, known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, is one of the movement's most dangerous offshoots.
And, as the Idols and the X Factors and the Got Talents – and their unrelated offshoots about dancing and skating and diving – have multiplied around the world, this is the blueprint that would-be judges have seized upon.
For the last three weeks his officers have also had to contend with anti-Islamisation Bagida and Mügida demonstrations every Monday – local offshoots of the headline-catching Pegida in Dresden.
Or maybe other offshoots around the world.
That seems to be the case with Occupy Wall Street (and its many local offshoots).
Alumni in Australia and Spain have created online teaching resources for teachers and pupils, such as digital and video lessons that can be personalised.One of the most useful things TfA and its many offshoots can do is what Brett Wigdortz, the founder of Teach First, describes as "detoxifying the brand of teaching".
Backing their most promising offshoots is the next best thing.Indeed, a handful of specialist investors are looking to back new hedge funds in the same way that venture capitalists back start-ups.
The explosion of the IT business and its offshoots has helped produce a new breed of young professionals with money in their pockets and their own ideas on how to spend it.
The contrast between the dysfunctional national body and its active regional offshoots is striking, because the CFCM is squabbling yet again ahead of a leadership election on June 8th.In this section A political soap-opera, continued Uneasy partnership A swansong for the coalition Divided rule The graveyard shift Covering up A woman's place?
The state of Utah, where Mormon influence is very strong, has a relatively draconian anti-polygamy law whose apparent purpose is to penalise dissident offshoots from the mainstream Mormon faith: groups which hold to the belief that polygamy (or more precisely polygyny, marriage between a man and several women) is ordained by God.
There is an unmistakeable worry that the main beneficiaries of a genuinely free and fair election in Egypt would be the Muslim Brotherhood.The Egyptian wing of the movement today proclaims itself to be peaceful and democratic, but the Brotherhood has in the past produced violent jihadist offshoots.
