progeny
noun
a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal.
progenies
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pluralof progeny.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The series wisely taps some familiar faces from Bravo shows of yore, tossing “Housewives” progenies Ariana Biermann, Riley Burruss, Gia Giudice and Brooks Marks into the batter before adding a few special ingredients.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
Symbolically, though, the first of Johnson’s hallmark progenies graced a route that bendies had snaked along and where the Routemaster had met its end – the number 38, which links Hackney with Victoria.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2015
But more than just being little progenies, the Smith children combine their beyond-their-years giftedness with a truly kid-like apparent pleasure in what they do.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2010
The father and grandfather and uncle and great-uncles, the great-grandfather and great-great-uncles, with all their progenies, lay before him in a maze of entanglement which it would be his business to unravel.
From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The prolific mothers of several families of the swinish species, with their squealing progenies, gathered around us, in full expectation, doubtless, of the dispensation of an extra ration, which we had not to give.
From What I Saw in California by Edwin Bryant
