offspring
Americannoun
PLURAL
offspring, offsprings-
children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
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a child or animal in relation to the parent or parents.
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a descendant.
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descendants collectively.
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the product, result, or effect of something.
the offspring of an inventive mind.
noun
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the immediate descendant or descendants of a person, animal, etc; progeny
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a product, outcome, or result
Etymology
Origin of offspring
First recorded before 950; Middle English; Old English ofspring; off, of 1, spring (in the sense “to descend from”)
Example Sentences
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Like many butterfly species, the Marsh Fritillary is univoltine, meaning it produces just a single brood of offspring in its year-long life cycle.
From BBC
Although wolves and dogs still share territory and are capable of producing fertile offspring, actual hybridization between them is unusual.
From Science Daily
Like lottery winners, wealthy individuals fear their offspring might blow money they haven’t had to toil for.
Leaders in both Washington and Beijing now see AI as a revolutionary technology that could surpass digital computing—and its offspring, the internet—in its potential for disruption.
He argued he was simply in favour of choice, that it would be equally permissible to favour homosexual offspring and that it was simply natural to want grandchildren.
From BBC
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