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offspring

noun
/ˈɒfspɹɪŋ/UK/ˈɔfspɹɪŋ/US

Etymology

From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.

  1. inherited from ofspring — “offspring, descendants, posterity”
  2. inherited from ofspring

Definitions

  1. A person's daughter or son

    A person's daughter or son; a person's child.

    • We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.

  2. Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.

  3. An animal or plant's progeny or young.

    • In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Anything produced

      Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.

      • Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.

    2. A process launched by another process.

The neighborhood

  • antonymgenitorantonym(s) of “daughter(s) and/or son(s)”
  • antonymparentantonym(s) of “daughter(s) and/or son(s)”
  • antonymprogenitorantonym(s) of “daughter(s) and/or son(s)”
  • antonymfatherantonym(s) of “daughter(s) and/or son(s)”
  • antonymmotherantonym(s) of “daughter(s) and/or son(s)”
  • antonymancestorsantonym(s) of “descendants”
  • antonymforbearantonym(s) of “descendants”
  • antonymforebearantonym(s) of “descendants”
  • antonymforefatherantonym(s) of “descendants”

Derived

donor offspring, grandoffspring, large offspring syndrome, offspringless, parent-offspring conflict

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at offspring. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at offspring. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at offspring

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA