progeny
/ˈprɒdʒəni
/noun [treated as singular or plural]
A descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring: shorthorn cattle are highly effective in bestowing their characteristics on their progeny...
- Chromosome counting was carried out on the 16 aberrant plants of the 1999 progeny.
- While performing this experiment, we discovered almost a hundred sources of male sterile cytoplasm, which were distinguished by their overwhelming frequency of male sterile plants in segregating test progenies.
- Among these viable progenies, plants with 28 chromosomes (13 ring bivalent + 1 rod bivalent) were identified.
Synonyms
offspring, children, young, family, brood;
Law issue
derogatory spawn
rare progeniture, quiverful
descendants, successors, heirs, stock, scions, lineage
archaic seed, posterity
Origin
Middle English: from Old French progenie, from Latin progenies, from progignere 'beget' (see progenitor).
Rhymes
- nonfriend
- non-fulfilment
- non-functional
- non-functioning
- non-fundamental
- nong
- non-game
- non-gay
- nongenary
- non-gendered
- non-gender-specific
- non-genetic
- non-genetically
- non-genital
- non-German
- non-Germanic
- non-governmental
- non-graduate
- non-gravitation
- non-greasy
- non-gremial
- non-haem
- non-happening
- non-hearer
- non-hearing