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Heredity :: Heredity (n.) Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

Brat :: Brat (n.) A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense..

Metisse :: Metisse (n. f.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon.

Homogenesis :: Homogenesis (n.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis..

Child :: Child (n.) A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants..

Griffe :: Griffe (n.) The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto..

Marabou :: Marabou (n.) One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.

Superfetation :: Superfetate (v. i.) To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring..

Produce :: Produce (v. i.) To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results..

Son :: Son (n.) A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother..

Fruitless :: Fruitless (a.) Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage..

Issue :: Issue (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants..

Mestee :: Mestee (n.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.

Increase :: Increase (v. i.) Progeny; issue; offspring.

Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are the

Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis..

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children..

Parent :: Parent (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother..

Hagseed :: Hagseed (n.) The offspring of a hag.

Philoprogenitive :: Philoprogenitive (a.) Having the love of offspring; fond of children.

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