Definition of offspring

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Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.

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Barren :: Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Be- :: Be- () To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around)..
Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously..
Mestizo :: Mestizo (n.) The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
Progeny :: Progeny (n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage..
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..
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..
Octoroon :: Octoroon (n.) The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.
Abort :: Abort (n.) An aborted offspring.
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..
Marabou :: Marabou (n.) One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
Descendant :: Descendant (n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant..
Quadroon :: Quadroon (n.) The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.
Bowel :: Bowel (n.) Offspring.
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..
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..
Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
Prolicide :: Prolicide (n.) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth..
Offspring :: 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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