Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The organism or organisms resulting from sexual or asexual reproduction.
- noun A child or children of a parent or parents.
- noun A person's descendants considered as a group.
- noun A result or product.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Descent; lineage; family; ancestry.
- noun Children; offspring, whether of the human kind or of the lower animals; descendants.
- noun Synonyms Issue, Posterity, etc. See
offspring .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable
offspring ordescendants . - noun countable result of a creative effort
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the immediate descendants of a person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It looks as if the answer you will get is that if an engineer designs an object that is self maintaining, able to supply its own energy needs and has reproductive and information storage capacity, then one will get a succession of progeny from the initial design.
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It looks as if the answer you will get is that if an engineer designs an object that is self maintaining, able to supply its own energy needs and has reproductive and information storage capacity, then one will get a succession of progeny from the initial design.
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At least one parent should be a U.S. citizen before the progeny is eligible would be my opinion.
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The New York Times in July reported that a handful of breeders in Switzerland, Britain and possibly other countries have imported semen and embryos from cloned animals or their progeny from the United States, seeking to create more consistently plump and productive livestock.
The Cloned Cow Has Left the Barn Henry I. Miller 2010
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At least one parent should be a U.S. citizen before the progeny is eligible would be my opinion.
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My opinion of Severus and his progeny is that they were active contributors to every problem that afflicted the long-suffering people of the empire.
Archive 2004-09-12 Michael Evans 2004
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My opinion of Severus and his progeny is that they were active contributors to every problem that afflicted the long-suffering people of the empire.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2004
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It describes a celebration to honour famous progeny from the dust bowl province.
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I suspect the scrofula, and consumption, to arise in the young progeny from the debility of the lymphatic and venous absorption produced in the parent by this innutritious fossile stimulus.
Note XI 1803
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a viviparous offspring without sexual intercourse for nine or ten successive generations; and then the progeny is both male and female, which cohabit, and from these new females are produced eggs, which endure the winter; the same process probably occurs in many other insects.p. The potent wish in the productive hour
Canto II 1803
chained_bear commented on the word progeny
"... but it does put me in an awkward position vis-a-vis my progeny!" (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
October 12, 2007
uselessness commented on the word progeny
Ulysses Everett McGill may well be the best-dialogued character of our time.
October 12, 2007
glypheme commented on the word progeny
"I'm a child progeny."
"Most children are."
—Calvin and Hobbes
November 29, 2013