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Puppies are the offspring, or children, of a mamma dog. You're the offspring of your biological parents.

This is basically another word for children. Baby horses, gorillas, lizards, and humans are all offspring. A woman who gives birth to quadruplets suddenly has a lot of offspring. But this word isn't limited to biological creations — you could say that a project you've been laboring over is your offspring. Albert Einstein's offspring included many groundbreaking theories, and the scientists who followed up on Einstein's ideas are considered his intellectual offspring.

DEFINITIONS OF: offspring

n the immediate descendants of a person

“she was the mother of many offspring”

Synonyms:: issue, progeny

Examples:: Esau
(Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a mess of pottage

Types:: show 14 types...; hide 14 types...; 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; army brat
the child of a career officer of the United States Army; babe, baby, infant
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; female offspring
a child who is female; granddaughter
a female grandchild; grandson
a male grandchild; great grandchild
a child of your grandson or granddaughter; male offspring, man-child
a child who is male; stepchild
a child of your spouse by a former marriage

Type of:: relation, relative
a person related by blood or marriage

n something that comes into existence as a result

“industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring”

Synonyms:: materialisation, materialization

Type of:: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

n any immature animal

Synonyms:: young

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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; baby
a very young mammal; pup, whelp
young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf; wolf cub, wolf pup
a young wolf; cub, young carnivore
the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion; kit
young of any of various fur-bearing animals; suckling
a young mammal that has not been weaned; fledgeling, fledgling
young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying; baby bird, nestling
young bird not yet fledged; eaglet
a young eagle; biddy, chick
young bird especially of domestic fowl; cygnet
a young swan; calf
young of domestic cattle; calf
young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo; kitten, kitty
young domestic cat; foal
a young horse; piggy, piglet, shoat, shote
a young pig; heifer
young cow; bullock
young bull; lamb
young sheep; fawn
a young deer; parr
the young of various fishes; whitebait
the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts; brit, britt
the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish; parr
a young salmon up to 2 years old

Type of:: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

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