What is the meaning of outgrowth?

A natural consequence of development.
- synonyms: branch, offshoot, offset
The gradual beginning or coming forth.
- usage: "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"
- synonyms: emergence, growth
A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant.
- usage: "a bony process"
- synonyms: process, appendage

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