Definition of offspring

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

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Barren :: Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Metisse :: Metisse (n. f.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon.
Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
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..
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.
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.
Get :: Get (n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion..
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..
Prolicide :: Prolicide (n.) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth..
Superfetation :: Superfetate (v. i.) To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring..
Octoroon :: Octoroon (n.) The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously..
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
Philoprogenitiveness :: Philoprogenitiveness (n.) The love of offspring; fondness for children.
Griffe :: Griffe (n.) The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto..
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..
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..
Seed :: Seed (n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David..
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..
Marabou :: Marabou (n.) One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
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