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progeny

noun
/ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/UK/ˈpɹɑd͡ʒəni/US

Etymology

From Middle English progenie, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”).

  1. derived from prōgeniēs
  2. derived from progenie
  3. inherited from progenie

Definitions

  1. Offspring or descendants considered as a group.

    • I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.
    • One worm on a single plate can give rise to thousands of progeny after just a week or so.

  2. Descent, lineage, ancestry.

    • Beſides, all French and France exclaimes on thee, / Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. / Who ioyn’ſt thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, / That will not truſt thee, but for profits ſake ?

  3. A result of a creative effort.

    • His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.

The neighborhood

Derived

interprogeny, progenate

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at progeny. 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.

01progeny02lineage03paid04pay05debt06adopt07child08daughter09offspring

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

9 hops · closes at progeny

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