noun. The act or process of growing out.

noun. A product of growing out; a projecting part or offshoot.

noun. A result or consequence.

noun. That which grows out; an excrescence: specifically, in botany, a collective term for the various excrescences or growths from the general surface of plants, such as trichomes, prickles, bristles, the ligule of grasses, etc.

noun. A development or growth from some other or earlier condition or state of things; a growth, development, result, or resultant from any kind of cause or beginning.

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

noun. Anything that grows out of something else.

noun. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant

noun. a natural consequence of development

noun. the gradual beginning or coming forth

"This doesn't mean that the NASA team "stole" the concept from DIRECT, but it indicates that this concept is a natural outgrowth from a desire to place these large shuttle payloads in orbit."

neurite outgrowth  neuronal outgrowth  

consequence  effect  event  issue  outcome  

abolishment  amelioration  corollary  emergence  recrudescence  

apophysis  artifact  benign tumor  brainchild  budding