offshoot vs consequence

offshoot and consequence both are nouns.

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

As nouns, consequence is a hypernym of offshoot; that is, consequence is a word with a broader meaning than offshoot:

offshoot: a natural consequence of development
consequence: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

Other hypernyms of offshoot include effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot.

offshoot (noun)	consequence (noun)
a natural consequence of development	having important effects or influence
	the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual
	a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon