āCoffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.ā ā Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
PROGENY
offspring, progeny, issue
(noun) the immediate descendants of a person; āshe was the mother of many offspringā; āhe died without issueā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
progeny (countable and uncountable, plural progenies)
(uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
(uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry.
(countable) A result of a creative effort.
Synonyms
• (offspring): binary clone, descendant(s), fruit of one's loins, get, issue, lineage, offspring
Anagrams
• pyrogen
Source: Wiktionary
Prog"e*ny, n. Etym: [OE. progenie, F. progƩnie, fr. L. progenies, fr. progignere. See Progenitor.]
Definition: Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage. " Issued from the progeny of kings." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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