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
- defeminise
- defeminize
- defence
- Defence Force
- defence in depth
- defenceless
- defencelessly
- defencelessness
- defenceman
- defence mechanism
- defend
- defendable
- defendant
- defender
- Defender of the Faith
- defenestrate
- defenestration
- defense
- defenseless
- defenseman
- defensibility
- defensible
- defensibly
- defensive
- defensive coordinator