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OFFSPRING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any immature animal
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("offspring" is a kind of...):
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "offspring"):
hatchling (any recently hatched animal (especially birds))
orphan (a young animal without a mother)
young mammal (any immature mammal)
young bird (a bird that is still young)
spat (a young oyster or other bivalve)
young fish (a fish that is young)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Something that comes into existence as a result
Example:
this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts
Synonyms:
materialisation; materialization; offspring
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("offspring" is a kind of...):
consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The immediate descendants of a person
Example:
he died without issue
Synonyms:
issue; offspring; progeny
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("offspring" is a kind of...):
relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "offspring"):
baby (the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young))
bastard; by-blow; illegitimate; illegitimate child; love child; whoreson (the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents)
child; kid (a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age)
eldest; firstborn (the offspring who came first in the order of birth)
grandchild (a child of your son or daughter)
heir; successor (a person who inherits some title or office)
Context examples:
Arsenic was then given to the offspring after weaning, and all through adulthood at concentrations relevant to human exposure.
(Low doses of arsenic cause cancer in male mice, NIH)
Inherited; having to do with information that is passed from parents to offspring through genes in sperm and egg cells.
(Genetic, NCI Dictionary)
Parent-specific expression or repression of genes or chromosomes in offspring.
(Genomic Imprinting, NCI Thesaurus)
A medical-surgical specialty dealing with the care of a woman and her offspring during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (the period shortly after birth).
(Obstetrics, NCI Thesaurus)
An indication of the number of direct relatives (i.e., parent, sibling, offspring) who have a particular condition.
(Number of First Degree Relatives (Affected), NCI Thesaurus)
Offspring; the product of reproduction or replication.
(Offspring, NCI Dictionary)
A measurement of the total number of live-born offspring a female has delivered.
(Parity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
My mother had much desired to have a daughter, but I continued their single offspring.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Either of the two offspring resulting from a shared ovum.
(Identical Twin, NCI Thesaurus)
Hereditary mutations are passed on from parents to offspring.
(Hereditary mutation, NCI Dictionary)
