offspring

[awf-spring, of-]

noun, plural off·spring, off·springs.

children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
a child or animal in relation to its parent or parents.
a descendant.

descendants collectively.
the product, result, or effect of something: the offspring of an inventive mind.

Origin of offspring

before 950; Middle English; Old English ofspring; see off, of¹, spring (in the sense “to descend from”)

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Related Words for offsprings

brood, generation, progeny, heir, cub, baby, descendant, kid, pup, spawn, lineage, scion, family, bambino, young, produce, posterity, heredity, seed, succession

Examples from the Web for offsprings

Historical Examples of offsprings

All such schemes are offsprings of an ambitious imagination.
Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862
Adam Gurowski
Uranos as well as Kronos and Pontos were offsprings of the Earth.
A Manual of the Historical Development of Art
G. G. (Gustavus George) Zerffi
Hitherto the Sydney Vanes had been unfortunate in their offsprings.
A Life Sentence
Adeline Sergeant
When we cease to hope, memory may cease to recall what were once the offsprings of hope.
Mark Hurdlestone
Susanna Moodie
Imagine a scientific cattle-breeder possessing a perfect bull, contented that one of its offsprings should take a single prize!
Race Improvement : or, Eugenics : a Little Book on a Great Subject
La Reine Helen Baker

British Dictionary definitions for offsprings

offspring

noun

the immediate descendant or descendants of a person, animal, etc; progeny
a product, outcome, or result

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Word Origin and History for offsprings

offspring

Old English ofspring "children or young collectively, descendants," literally "those who spring off (someone,)" from off + springan "to spring" (see spring (v.)). The figurative sense is first recorded c.1600.

offsprings in Medicine

offspring

[ôf′sprĭng′]

The progeny or descendants of a person, animal, or plant considered as a group.
A child of particular parentage.