Generation and Offshoot

Generation

Generation noun - Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent.

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Offshoot and generation are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Offshoot" instead a noun "Generation".

Offshoot noun - A branch of a main stem especially of a plant.

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Generation and offshoot are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Generation" instead a noun "Offshoot".

human	human generation	human offshoot
natural	natural generation	natural offshoot
original	original generation	original offshoot
actual	actual generation	actual offshoot
Other adjectives: extreme, little, new, early, later, growing, cynical, latest, different, comic, earlier, younger, newest.

Generation Xerox: Justice Legion A and its various offshoot teams are made up of a lot of Identical Grandson types and other close counterparts of the 20th century.

Source: Comic Book / DC One Million
As of the most recent issue of Justice League Generation Lost, Ice suddenly has been retconned to be a member of a Scandinavian Romani offshoot that are all conmen and thieves except for her immediate family, who fled the lifestyle to prevent her grandfather from using her ice powers for robbery.

Source: Useful Notes / Romani
Also from Next Generation are the Mintakans, an offshoot of Vulcans with a Bronze Age society, who believe Picard is a god after seeing his technology, despite him insisting he was not.

Source: Insufficiently Advanced Alien

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