[こ, ko] (n, n-suf) (1) child; (2) (also 仔) young (animal); (3) (also 娘) young woman; young geisha; (4) offshoot; (5) (See 元も子もない) interest; (6) (abbr) (See 子株・2) new shares; (7) (arch) bird egg; (n-suf) (8) (after a noun or -masu stem) -er (often of young women); (P) #443[Add to Longdo]
[れいゆうかい, reiyuukai] (n) Reiyukai (Buddhist sect founded in 1919 as an offshoot of Nichiren Buddhism) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Offshoot \Off"shoot`\, n. [Off + shoot.]
That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel,
family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
offshoot
n 1: a natural consequence of development [syn: {outgrowth},
{branch}, {offshoot}, {offset}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
