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PROGENY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The immediate descendants of a person
Example:
he died without issue
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("progeny" is a kind of...):
relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "progeny"):
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:
It was intensely inbred by N. Goto in 1978 from a single Carworth pair, the progeny of which is used today.
(CF-1 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon infusion into the hepatic artery, oncolytic HSV-1 rRp450 replicates in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells and exerts direct cytotoxic effects eventually disrupting cancer cell membranes and liberating progeny virions thereby infecting adjacent tumor cells.
(Oncolytic HSV-1 rRp450, NCI Thesaurus)
Totipotent stem cells, such as the product of fertilization of an ovum and its progeny, are stem cells that have total potency to form an entire mature organism, e.g., a human being, although only if placed in a woman's uterus.
(Murine Totipotent Stem Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
As he came out of his room he heard the slosh of water, a sharp exclamation, and a resounding smack as his sister visited her irritation upon one of her numerous progeny.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all the mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But it was one of her progeny who blasted Maria's reputation by announcing that the grand visitors had been for her lodger.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In the struggle for existence, as I have shown, the strong and the progeny of the strong tend to survive, while the weak and the progeny of the weak are crushed and tend to perish.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But you slaves—it is too bad to be slaves, I grant—but you slaves dream of a society where the law of development will be annulled, where no weaklings and inefficients will perish, where every inefficient will have as much as he wants to eat as many times a day as he desires, and where all will marry and have progeny—the weak as well as the strong.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
