event vs offshoot

event and offshoot both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
event	Yes	No	No	No
offshoot	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, offshoot is a hyponym of event; that is, offshoot is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than event:

event (noun)	offshoot (noun)
something that happens at a given place and time	a natural consequence of development
a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
a special set of circumstances