| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Something derived from another: byproduct, derivative, descendant, offshoot, outgrowth, spinoff. See KIN. 2. A point of origination: beginning, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root1, rootstock, source, spring, well1. See START.
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