All offspring synonyms
off·spring
O o noun offspring
- descendants — a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring.
- progeny — a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal.
- children — Children is the plural of child.
- issue — the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
- young — being in the first or early stage of life or growth; youthful; not old: a young woman.
- brood — A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
- litter — objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
- posterity — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- child — A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
- baby — A baby is a very young child, especially one that cannot yet walk or talk.
- cub — A cub is a young wild animal such as a lion, wolf, or bear.
- descendant — Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
- generation — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- heir — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- kid — Thomas, 1558–94, English dramatist.
- pup — a young dog; puppy.
- bambino — a young child, esp an Italian one
- family — the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family.
- heredity — the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
- lineage — the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
- offshoot — a branch or lateral shoot from a main stem, as of a plant.
- produce — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- scion — a descendant.
- seed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- spawn — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
- succession — the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events: many troubles in succession.
- successor — a person or thing that succeeds or follows.