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outgrowths

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Plural of outgrowth

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WS Graham wrote in a 1977 poem of "Floating across the frozen tundra / of the lexicon and the dictionary", but I find lexicons to be more tropical jungle than tundra, gloriously ornate in their tendrilled outgrowths and complex root systems.

Those near London lean more on commuting and the capital's outgrowths.

So by helping her colonymates survive and procreate, an aphid ensures that her own genes are passed on to future generations.The aphid colonies grow inside galls, abnormal outgrowths on plants.

The majority of deer have antlers, defined as solid, bony, branched outgrowths of the frontal bones, present only in the males (but also in female reindeer) and shed seasonally.

In fishes, small outgrowths from the myotomes enter the limb rudiment to form the muscles of the fins.

They produce outgrowths called axons and dendrites, by which the cells of the nervous system establish communication with one another to form a functional network.

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Justin Rose, another Englishman ranked in the top 25 worldwide, said it was an outgrowth of the structure of the European golf tour.

It has set up separate units where recruits are taught only by men and are given time off for prayers and study.Perhaps unexpectedly, the welling crisis triggered by the High Court's decision can be seen as an outgrowth of last summer's mass demonstrations for social justice that brought hundreds of thousands of people onto Israel's streets.

They mean, instead, that in its principles and aspirations that is, in its national essence the United States must be understood as an outgrowth and expression of Christian civilisation.

More telling is how Great Coastal and companies like it got into the business in the first place: as a fortuitous outgrowth of the desperate measures they were forced to employ to stay alive in an increasingly tough trucking business.Once, America's trucking industry was a cosy, regulated semi-cartel, with a few big companies dominating most regions.

The popular interpretation of OWS is that its an outgrowth of class war: the 99% taking on the 1% who have all the wealth.

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