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- Dictionaryoff·spring/ˈôfˌspriNG/
noun
- 1. a person's child or children: "the offspring of middle-class parents" Similar
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The meaning of OFFSPRING is the product of the reproductive processes of a person, animal, or plant : young, progeny. How to use offspring in a sentence.
Without genetics, offspring would be an average of their parents, and the eventual population, uniformly gray. The parents (indirectly) and the offspring (directly) benefit because the offspring's needs are satisfied without the cost of unwanted attention and a stressful display.
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.
OFFSPRING meaning: 1. the young of an animal: 2. a person's children: 3. the young of an animal: . Learn more.
Definition of offspring noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
You can refer to a person's children or to an animal's young as their offspring. She was now less anxious about her offspring than she had once been. 2 meanings: 1. the immediate descendant or descendants of a person, animal, etc; progeny 2. a product, outcome, or result....
In biology, offspring are the young creation of living organisms, produced either by sexual or asexual reproduction. Collective offspring may be known as a brood or progeny. This can refer to a set of simultaneous offspring, such as the chicks hatched from one clutch of eggs, or to all offspring produced over time, as with the honeybee.
The organism or organisms resulting from sexual or asexual reproduction. 2. A child or children of a parent or parents: the offspring of Zeus and Leto. 3. The result or product of something: "the glaciers, the offspring of the gentle snow" (John Muir). [Middle English ofspring, from Old English : of, off; see off + springan, to rise.]
What does the noun offspring mean? There are nine meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun offspring, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. How common is the noun offspring? How is the noun offspring pronounced? Where does the noun offspring come from?
a: product, result <scholarly manuscripts—the labored offsprings of PhDs — Donna Martin> b : offshoot 1a See offspring defined for English-language learners
