noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
leave
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Head for head, such a lineage would leave twice as many offspring .
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Eventually the rarer genes will disappear and the genetic types leaving fewer offspring will become extinct.
produce
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Frequent feeding is the key to producing good offspring , assuming they inherit the potential from their parents.
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From this viewpoint, gametes and the genes they carry are merely a device whereby organisms produce offspring like themselves.
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Moreover, the mating of a human being to the federal bench seems to produce an offspring that lives approximately for ever.
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And women in many developed countries are tending increasingly to adjust by forming non-legal unions that often produce offspring .
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The better ones breed to produce offspring and to drive the process further.
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It surely would be better for them to produce four slightly different offspring , each with its own particular strengths.
rear
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Females are often limited further by the necessity to rear offspring by brooding or lactation.
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Thousands of pages have been filled with theories on how to rear your offspring .
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After fertilization one or both of the parents may look after and help to rear the offspring .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hardly a day goes by without Mrs Molt or one of her offspring calling around to borrow something.
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Parents with the disease are likely to pass it on to their offspring .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A combination of lax discipline and hostile attitudes on the part of both parents encourages very aggressive and poorly controlled behaviour in their offspring .
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But this does put an exceedingly onerous burden on women who are required to bear, rear and look after the offspring .
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Fears that radiotherapy would cause genetic mutations leading to handicaps in offspring appear to be groundless, according to studies among 3,000 survivors.
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Only in mid-to late summer do they appear at the tunnel with their offspring .
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They see that as having survival value for their offspring .
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When they seemed to resemble each other rather too closely, he introduced random mutations in the offspring .
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With a mixture of threats and promises, Halvorsen managed to evict his determined offspring , and led Floyd into the office.