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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Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously..
Fruitless :: Fruitless (a.) Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage..
Mestizo :: Mestizo (n.) The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
Daughter :: Daughter (n.) The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.
Prolicide :: Prolicide (n.) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth..
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..
Syne :: Syndyasmian (a.) Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.
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..
Mestee :: Mestee (n.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.
Be- :: Be- () To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around)..
Increase :: Increase (v. i.) Progeny; issue; offspring.
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..
Triplet :: Triplet (n.) Three children or offspring born at one birth.
Calve :: Calve (v. i.) To bring forth young; to produce offspring.
Brat :: Brat (n.) A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense..
Marabou :: Marabou (n.) One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
Metisse :: Metisse (n. f.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon.
Hagseed :: Hagseed (n.) The offspring of a hag.
Produce :: Produce (v. i.) To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results..
Young :: Young (n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively..
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