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offspring
noun
1 offspring
The immediate descendants of a person:
— She was the mother of many offspring.
synonyms: issue, progeny.
Roget 154:
effect,
consequence;
aftergrowth†,
aftercome†;
derivative,
derivation;
result;
resultant,
resultance†;
upshot,
issue,
denouement;
end
etc.
67;
development,
outgrowth,
fruit,
crop,
harvest,
product,
bud.
production,
produce,
work,
handiwork,
fabric,
performance;
creature,
creation;
offspring,
offshoot;
firstfruits†,
firstlings;
heredity,
telegony†;
premices premises†.
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Roget 167:
posterity,
progeny,
breed,
issue,
offspring,
brood,
litter,
seed,
farrow,
spawn,
spat;
family,
grandchildren,
heirs;
great-grandchild.
child,
son,
daughter;
butcha†;
bantling,
scion;
acrospire†,
plumule†,
shoot,
sprout,
olive-branch,
sprit†,
branch;
off-shoot,
off-set;
ramification;
descendant;
heir,
heiress;
heir-apparent,
heir-presumptive;
chip off the old block;
heredity;
rising generation.
straight descent,
sonship†,
line,
lineage,
filiation†,
primogeniture.
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Dutch: nakomeling, nageslacht, nakomelingschap, nakroost
Polish: dzieci, potomstwo, progenitura, przychówek
2 offspring
Something that comes into existence as a result:
— Industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring.
synonyms: materialisation, materialization.
3 offspring
Any immature animal.
synonym: young.
Dutch: kind, nakomeling, jong, jonkie, kleintje
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