Definition of offspring

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

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Increase :: Increase (v. i.) Progeny; issue; offspring.
Sambo :: Sambo (n.) A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo..
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..
Abort :: Abort (n.) An aborted offspring.
Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body..
Lineage :: Lineage (n.) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
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..
Bowel :: Bowel (n.) Offspring.
Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock..
Philoprogenitiveness :: Philoprogenitiveness (n.) The love of offspring; fondness for children.
Hagseed :: Hagseed (n.) The offspring of a hag.
Son :: Son (n.) A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother..
Get :: Get (n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion..
Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.
Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously..
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..
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..
Parent :: Parent (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother..
Mestizo :: Mestizo (n.) The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
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