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offspring Noun

— An offspring is either the sons, daughters, or immediate descendants of a human, animal or plant. That lioness just gave birth to two offsprings!

offspring

— noun (= issue) the immediate descendants of a person she was the mother of many offspring he died without issue — noun (= materialization, materialisation) something that comes into existence as a result industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts — noun (= young) any immature animal

Synonyms offspring synonyms

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offspring English » English

child progeny descendant descendants children young issue posterity seed son scion daughter result kid successor race baby spawn offshoot infant youth youngster procreation outcome materialization materialisation girl brood younker young person yield yearling work upshot turnout toddler subsidiary production unit stopple sprout sprig something young secondary particle second growth schoolchild sapling root pupil progeniture profit product

Topics offspring topics

What do people use offspring to talk about?

Person Life Stage of life

Child

What words refer to a child (from birth to puberty)?

child children kid youngster boy girl brat small fry imp infant juvenile minor offspring progeny schoolchild squirt tad urchin weanling

Social behavior Relationships Kinship Related by birth

Grandson, granddaughter

What words refer to your descendants?

descendant offshoot offspring posterity progeny line

Examples offspring examples

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Simple sentences

The atomic bomb is the offspring of 20th century physics.

Some animals are producing offspring in zoos.

How many humps would an offspring of a Bactrian and a dromedary camel get?

These legends should be handed down to our offspring.

Parents can pass many diseases on to their offspring.

Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.

Movie subtitles

Eolja bastard, moreover, an offspring of a traitor became this town's Magistrate?

Well, I got no offspring following me around.

The true offspring of the mother of miseries.

Then, along about August, we can begin to figure on more important offspring.

She never sees her offspring.

Oh, she loaned it to you to train Mrs. Appley's offspring, huh?

And that's what your hoodlum offspring did with his fists.

Will his offspring be the same?

Offspring?

You do remember our remarkable offspring?

Come, my dear, we'll fetch our offspring at once.

They figure that a pair of rabbits had 1.5 million offspring in three years.

We must know plainly whether you recognize the offspring of Queen Anne. as heirs to the throne.

Now there's a fine choice for intelligent offspring.

This is my worthless, trick-playing offspring.

You merntioned the word duty just now, didn't you? Yes, you have a duty. But it's not to this loose little lady, or to her offspring either.

I anticipate superb offspring. And I'm going to be a little greedy about them.

He's the offspring of a sore-eyed camel driver!

And besides, how long do you think I could hold on to my job if it gets out I've got a transparent offspring?

For his offspring. And the girl?

Just as we do with cats As well as their blind offspring.

We must know plainly whether you recognise the offspring of Queen Anne as heirs to the throne.

Offspring as in, he's Adam.

I neglected, in my initial run-through, to correlate the possible contributions by offspring.

How do you select for the ideal offspring?

Please, be witness to the engagement between my daughter and Signor Silvio, worthy offspring of my friend, the good Doctor Lombardi!

Under their law. Either parent has the right to kill their offspring within a few weeks of birth.

The sexual stage provides the variety of offspring necessary for continued evolution.

These women and their offspring by the fishermen established a festival to commemorate the battle.

So those varieties which are, by accident, less well adapted don't survive, or at least they leave fewer offspring.

If you reproduce before you're fried turbulence will carry your offspring into the higher and cooler layers.

I have no doubt this boy. is the offspring of Anakin Skywalker.

News and current affairs

Reprogenetics will enable prospective parents to give their children genes that they themselves do not carry, thereby increasing their offspring's chances for health, longevity, happiness, and success - an appalling prospect for many bioethicists.

Oxytocin is what bonds mammals to their offspring, and in humans makes spouses care about and love each other.

The traits that enable people to feed and protect themselves increase the likelihood that they will live long enough to produce offspring, whom they will be able to feed and protect until maturity.

Their offspring still play an important part in conservative politics in the country, which is why Korean leftists periodically call for purges and retribution.

Obviously, analogous questions can be extended to the selection of many other traits that are not essential to the health of the resulting offspring.

Thus, Darwin argued, they must increase the probability of more offspring by making the males more attractive to female mates.

The very fact, he reasoned, that these features make life harder signals to prospective partners that individuals who can do reasonably well with them have an especially good genetic set-up and are thus likely to produce strong offspring.

And the goal of avoiding genetic abnormalities would justify widening the prohibition to sexual relationships between all couples who are at high risk of having abnormal offspring.

But perhaps most conspicuously absent from both precautionary and proactionary thinking is the old welfare-state ideal - that we might procreate at will in a world where our offspring are assured a secure existence.

So are elephants, and elephant mothers do not focus only on the well-being of their own offspring.

Given that females bear the physical burden of offspring, an unobtrusive appearance is more advantageous - and thus more common - in nature.

Likewise, it is now launching a war in Iraq and Syria against the offspring of Bush's forced regime change in Baghdad and Obama's ill-conceived plan to topple Assad.

When the offspring of manual workers imported from countries such as Turkey and Morocco in the 1960's began to form large Muslim minorities in European cities, tensions rose in working-class neighborhoods.

One of Tilly's offspring, sold to an amusement park in Spain, has also killed a trainer, as have orcas in other parks.

For example, if the bacterium Wolbachia's genes are integrated by different hosts, such as spiders, insects, or worms, the hosts' offspring are also descendants of Wolbachia.

The first was not confessing quickly enough to his having mistresses, one of whom has a college-age offspring whose father is probably Tang.

As mothers, women have evolutionary incentives to maintain peaceful conditions in which to nurture their offspring and ensure that their genes survive into the next generation.

As a result, postcommunists prefer to place their offspring in lucrative commercial jobs where they can pile up foreign-currency fortunes.

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