offshoot

1. N-COUNT If one thing is an offshoot of another, it has developed from that other thing. 衍生物; 分支

Psychology began as a purely academic offshoot of natural philosophy. 心理學(xué)形成之初是作爲(wèi)自然哲學(xué)的一個(gè)純學(xué)術(shù)分支。