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That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

A member of the Congregation of Saint Maur, an offshoot of the Benedictines, originating in France in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Maurists have been distinguished for their interest in literature.

One of a religious sect called the United Brethern (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Bret…

A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

An offshoot; a branch. [R.] "Some outrunner of the river." Lauson.

A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.

The process of branching, or the development or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.