Definition of offspring

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

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Heredity :: Heredity (n.) Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.
Mestizo :: Mestizo (n.) The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
Octoroon :: Octoroon (n.) The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
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..
Daughter :: Daughter (n.) The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.
Superfetation :: Superfetate (v. i.) To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring..
Bowel :: Bowel (n.) Offspring.
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..
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..
Prolicide :: Prolicide (n.) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth..
Triplet :: Triplet (n.) Three children or offspring born at one birth.
Half-breed :: Half-breed (n.) A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race..
Produce :: Produce (v. i.) To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results..
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..
Sambo :: Sambo (n.) A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo..
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..
Get :: Get (n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion..
Parent :: Parent (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother..
Hagseed :: Hagseed (n.) The offspring of a hag.
Philoprogenitive :: Philoprogenitive (a.) Having the love of offspring; fond of children.
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