Definition of offspring

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

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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..
Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
Imp :: Imp (n.) An offspring; progeny; child; scion.
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..
Firstling :: Firstling (n.) The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock..
Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.
Posterity :: Posterity (n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham..
Demigod :: Demigod (n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal..
Parent :: Parent (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother..
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.
Lineage :: Lineage (n.) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
Be- :: Be- () To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around)..
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..
Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously..
Calve :: Calve (v. i.) To bring forth young; to produce offspring.
Africander :: Africander (n.) One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a colored mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers..
Prolicide :: Prolicide (n.) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth..
Brat :: Brat (n.) A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense..
Mestee :: Mestee (n.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.
Quadroon :: Quadroon (n.) The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.
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