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

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

Syne :: Syndyasmian (a.) Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.

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..

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

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

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.

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..

Viviparous :: Viviparous (a.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous..

Mestizo :: Mestizo (n.) The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.

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..

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

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..

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

Gamogenesis :: Gamogenesis (n.) The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.

Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously..

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

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

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

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..

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