Here the buttress-tree may be seen in its prime, but in part embraced at its lower part by the tightly clasping offshoots of the young banyan.
This climber, which is probably a species of Lyonsia, has a main stem of the size of a man's leg, which embraces a tree, whilst it sends its offshoots for a distance of some 40 or 50 feet along the ground.
The earlier critics who impugned the traditional view appear to have leaned rather to the theory that Marcion's Gospel and the canonical Luke are, more or less, independent offshoots from the common ground-stock of the evangelical narratives.
These are continually sending out offshoots and projections into the neighbouring regions, and the conclusions of one science very often have to depend upon those of another.
The tribes of Al-Hijaz are tediously numerous: it will be sufficient to enumerate the principal branches of the Badawi tree, without detailing the hundred little offshoots which it has put forth in the course of ages.
The rest of the population of Al-Madinah is a motley race composed of offshoots from every nation in Al-Islam.
Other names are returned which are not those of Rajput clans or their offshoots at all.
The Roman senate sacrificed the first essential result of the policy of Alexander, and thereby paved the way for that retrograde movement, whose last offshoots ended in the Alhambra of Granada and in the great Mosque of Constantinople.
The history of India consists in like manner of the history of the eastern offshoots of the Aryan stock who settled in that land.
One of the western offshoots built Athens and Sparta, and became the Greek nation; another went on to Italy, and reared the city on the Seven Hills, which grew into Imperial Rome.
The western offshoots of the Ala Dagh in the north and the mountains of Astarabad in the south enclose the valley of the Gurgan River, which also flows westwards and parallel to the Atrek to the south-eastern corner of the Caspian.
The latter sees only occasional facets and angles, offshoots and outgrowths, some of them not desirable but even grotesque in themselves, while those elements which unify and harmonise the whole are likely to escape him.
Above, it is true, bald and frowning mountains loom, and their long offshoots run even into the very sea.
We recognize the wealth of Vesuvius, and of Etna in the long offshoots that they send far into the Sea, and we know what a lovely paradise is formed under the Himalayas, by the volcanic circle of the vale of Cachemire.
As there is no triforium, and only a blank clerestory, the whole effect comes from the tall columns and their narrow arches, the last offshoots of Spalato that we have to record.
It shows how late the genuine tradition lingered on, and what vigorous offshoots the old style could throw off, even when it might be thought to be dead.
Ancient and extinct forms of life often show combined or intermediate characters, like the words of a dead language with respect to its severaloffshoots or living tongues.
Occasionally a breed may be retained for some particular quality in a nearly unaltered condition in the same country, together with highly modified offshoots or sub-breeds, which are valued for some distinct property.
These underground houses have occasionally smaller chambers, as offshoots from the main one, which are entered by openings of small size.
Offshoots from each dynasty are planted in authority over petty kingdoms, displacing or rather depressing the rulers previously in possession.
It treats the principal elements of the ancient population, both Celtic and Pre-Celtic, asoffshoots of one stock, united in ancestry, and it thus symbolises the effective national unity and fusion which had come about.
Other priories were originally offshoots from the larger abbeys, to the abbots of which they continued subordinate; but in later times the actual distinction between abbeys and priories was lost.
These, and their hundred offshoots were conceived in serious moments.
Only a fragment of the original main trunk now exists, the various offshoots growing vigorously in the surrounding compound, all still guarded and attended by the priests as lovingly as when done 2200 years ago.
Offshoots from some of these have been transplanted to Larnaca, and there are now several gardens in which a fair quantity of fruit ripens each year.
These are now beginning to yield fruit, and offshoots are being distributed in the Island.
The portion skirting the Ebro forms a spacious and for the most part fertile undulating plain, called La Rioja, but in the south Logrono is considerably broken up by offshoots from the sierras which separate that river from the Douro.
The vast royal tree, expanding so luxuriantly at Versailles, sends forth its offshoots to overrun France by thousands, and to bloom everywhere, as at Versailles, in bouquets of finery and of drawing room sociability.
These are the last offshoots of the old, knotty, savage trunk, but still capable of affording shelter.
The service of man is the service of God, for lamp and table are offshoots of the altar.
They are both offshoots from the altar in the middle.
The lamp and the table must together be offshoots from the altar.
In its physical constitution Elis is practically one with Achaea and Arcadia; its mountains are mere offshoots of the Arcadian highlands, and its principal rivers are fed by Arcadian springs.
It included not only the champaign country originally designated by its name, but also the mountainous region of Acrorea, occupied by the offshoots of Erymanthus.
There is no clear evidence that the class of Cyclostomes, as now known to us, has any great antiquity, and its members may be all degenerate offshoots from types of greater complexity of structure.
Nor is there any sure foundation to the view adopted by Woodward, that they are to be considered as armored offshoots of the Dipnoans.
Place it with the Ostracoderms among the curiously specialized offshoots of the early Chordates, but this position would be at the best unsatisfactory.
Modern researches have shown that besides the ordinary back-boned animals certain other creatures easily to be mistaken for mollusks or worms and being chordate in structure must be regarded as offshoots from the vertebrate branch.
Dean's statement in 1896, that it belongs "among the curiously specialized offshoots of the early Chordates.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offshoots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
