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Be- :: Be- () To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around)..

Young :: Young (n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively..

Imp :: Imp (n.) An offspring; progeny; child; scion.

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..

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

Quadroon :: Quadroon (n.) The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.

Prepotency :: Prepotency (n.) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring..

Prolicide :: Prolicide (n.) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth..

Hybrid :: Hybrid (n.) The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.

Half-breed :: Half-breed (n.) A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race..

Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.

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..

Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring..

Reproduction :: Reproduction (n.) the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring.

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

Progeny :: Progeny (n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage..

Barren :: Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

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.

Superfete :: Superfetation (n.) The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation..

Seed :: Seed (n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David..

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