young, offspring
(noun) any immature animal
offspring, materialization, materialisation
(noun) 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”
offspring, progeny, issue
(noun) the immediate descendants of a person; “she was the mother of many offspring”; “he died without issue”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
offspring (plural offspring or offsprings)
A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
All of a person's descendants, including further generations.
An animal or plant's progeny or young.
(figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
(computing) A process launched by another process.
• The plural offsprings is mainly used for the computing sense.
• (daughter(s) and/or son(s)): baby/babies, child/children, fruit of one's loins, issue (plural only), get, kid/kids
• (all descendants): binary clone, descendants, fruit of one's loins, get, lineage, progeny, seed
• (daughter(s) and/or son(s)): genitor (rare), parent, progenitor, father (male), mother (female)
• (descendants): ancestors, forbears/forebears, forefathers
Source: Wiktionary
Off"spring`, n.sing. & pl. Etym: [Off + spring.]
1. The act of production; generation. [Obs.]
2. That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. To the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known. Dryden.
3. Origin; lineage; family. [Obs.] Fairfax.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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