prog·e·ny

(prŏj′ə-nē)

n. pl. progeny or prog·e·nies

a. The organism or organisms resulting from sexual or asexual reproduction.

b. A child or children of a parent or parents: claimed to be the progeny of the king.

c. A person's descendants considered as a group.

2. A result or product: lies that were the progeny of fear.

[Middle English progeni, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignere, to beget; see progenitor.]

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progeny

(ˈprɒdʒɪnɪ)

n, pl -nies

1. the immediate descendant or descendants of a person, animal, etc

2. a result or outcome

[C13: from Latin prōgeniēs lineage; see progenitor]

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prog•e•ny

(ˈprɒdʒ ə ni)

n., pl. -ny, for plants or animals, -nies.

a. offspring collectively; children.

b. (broadly) descendants.

2. something that originates or results from something else; outcome; issue.

[1250–1300; Middle English progenie < Middle French < Latin prōgeniēs offspring =prō- pro-¹ + gen-, base of gignere to beget (akin to kin) + -iēs feminine n. suffix]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

progeny - the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"

offspring, issue

baby - the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young); "the baby of the family"; "the baby of the Supreme Court"

by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child - the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

child, kid - a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college"

eldest, firstborn - the offspring who came first in the order of birth

grandchild - a child of your son or daughter

relative, relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

heir, successor - a person who inherits some title or office

progeny

noun

1. children, family, young, issue, offspring, descendants They set aside funds to ensure the welfare of their progeny.

2. race, stock, breed, posterity (archaic), seed (chiefly biblical), lineage, scions They claimed to be the progeny of Genghis Khan.

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progeny

noun

1. One descended directly from the same parents or ancestors:

child, descendant, offspring, scion.

2. A group consisting of those descended directly from the same parents or ancestors:

brood, get, issue, offspring, posterity, seed.

Translations

progenie

progeny

[ˈprɒdʒɪnɪ] N → progenie f

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progeny

[ˈprɒdʒəni] n

(= child) → progéniture f

[animal] → progéniture f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

progeny

n → Nachkommen pl, → Nachkommenschaft f

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progeny

[ˈprɒdʒɪnɪ] n (frm) → progenie f, discendenti mpl

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

prog·e·ny

n. descendencia, prole.

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In the struggle for existence, as I have shown, the strong and the progeny of the strong tend to survive, while the weak and the progeny of the weak are crushed and tend to perish.

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These molecular changes were transmitted to the cerebral cells of progeny, became, in short, racial memories.

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This unexpected addition to his worriments in finding places for the progeny of his petroleum and their progeny and their progeny's progeny was too much for the equanimity of a man without a digestion.

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It must be confessed that a family likeness pervaded these respectable progeny of Drowne's skill; that the benign countenance of the king resembled those of his subjects, and that Miss Peggy Hobart, the merchant's daughter, bore a remarkable similitude to Britannia, Victory, and other ladies of the allegoric sisterhood; and, finally, that they all had a kind of wooden aspect which proved an intimate relationship with the unshaped blocks of timber in the carver's workshop.

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I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny. Two canine animals in a time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live.

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And in this same last or shoe, that old woman of the nursery tale, with the swarming brood, might very comfortably be lodged, she and all her progeny. But as you come nearer to this great head it begins to assume different aspects, according to your point of view.

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Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all the mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny. It manifested itself as a fear strong within her, that made her prevent One Eye from more closely inspecting the cubs he had fathered.

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Calculating upon the aversion of the people to monarchy, they have endeavored to enlist all their jealousies and apprehensions in opposition to the intended President of the United States; not merely as the embryo, but as the full-grown progeny, of that detested parent.

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As summer advances, he gives up his bachelor rambles, and bethinking himself of housekeeping duties, returns home to his mate and his new progeny, and marshals them all for the foraging expedition in quest of winter provisions.

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And all went well, and would have continued to go well, had not Lamai's mother, Lenerengo, just awakened, stepped across her black litter of progeny and raised her voice in shrill protest against her eldest born's introducing of one more mouth and much more nuisance into the household.

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They slept; the young couple governed in the forest, and had a numerous progeny, but they were never boiled, and never came on the silver dishes; so from this they concluded that the manor-house had fallen to ruins, and that all the men in the world were extinct; and as no one contradicted them, so, of course it was so.

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Among the shifting, sonorous, pulsing crowd glimpses could be had of Jerry's high hat, battered by the winds and rains of many years; of his nose like a carrot, battered by the frolicsome, athletic progeny of millionaires and by contumacious fares; of his brass-buttoned green coat, admired in the vicinity of McGary's.

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