Definition of offspring

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

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Fruitless :: Fruitless (a.) Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage..
Superfetation :: Superfetate (v. i.) To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring..
Barren :: Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body..
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..
Increase :: Increase (v. i.) Progeny; issue; offspring.
Hagseed :: Hagseed (n.) The offspring of a hag.
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..
Be- :: Be- () To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around)..
Overbear :: Overbear (v. i.) To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
Philoprogenitiveness :: Philoprogenitiveness (n.) The love of offspring; fondness for children.
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..
Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring..
Octoroon :: Octoroon (n.) The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
Marabou :: Marabou (n.) One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
Get :: Get (n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion..
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..
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.
Mestee :: Mestee (n.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.
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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