Definition of offspring

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Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock..

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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
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.
Gamogenesis :: Gamogenesis (n.) The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.
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.
Team :: Team (n.) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto..
Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens..
Calve :: Calve (v. i.) To bring forth young; to produce offspring.
Bowel :: Bowel (n.) Offspring.
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..
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..
Philoprogenitive :: Philoprogenitive (a.) Having the love of offspring; fond of children.
Mulatto :: Mulatto (n.) The offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion..
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..
Hagseed :: Hagseed (n.) The offspring of a hag.
Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously..
Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body..
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..
Sambo :: Sambo (n.) A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo..
Philoprogenitiveness :: Philoprogenitiveness (n.) The love of offspring; fondness for children.
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