Definition of offspring

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Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.

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Son :: Son (n.) A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother..
Produce :: Produce (v. i.) To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results..
Firstling :: Firstling (n.) The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock..
Progeny :: Progeny (n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage..
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
Demigod :: Demigod (n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal..
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
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..
Jumart :: Jumart (n.) The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare.
Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
Proletaneous :: Proletaneous (a.) Having a numerous offspring.
Marabou :: Marabou (n.) One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
Metisse :: Metisse (n. f.) The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.
Calve :: Calve (v. i.) To bring forth young; to produce offspring.
Get :: Get (n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion..
Brat :: Brat (n.) A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense..
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..
Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously..
Reproduce :: Reproduce (v. t.) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation..
Metisse :: Metisse (n. f.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon.
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