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单词 offspring
释义 off·spring
\ˈȯfˌspriŋ also ˈäf-\ noun
(plural offspring also offsprings)
Etymology: Middle English ofspring, from Old English, from of off + springan to spring — more at of, spring
1. : something that springs from an animal or plant reproducing its kind : young, progeny, child, issue
 < a mother of numerous offspring >
2. : something that comes into being as a result : product
 < atomic bomb is the offspring of 20th century physics — I.I.Rabi >
3. obsolete
 a. : generation
 b. : ancestral stock : race
 c. : lineage, descent
 d. : source, origin
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