OFFSPRING


Meaning of OFFSPRING in English

noun plural

those who follow in direct parental line

a mother of numerous offspring

Synonyms: ||begats, brood, children, descendants, issue, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed

Related Word: hatch, swarm; produce, spawn, young

Contrasted words: antecedents, ascendants, forebears, forefathers, progenitors

Antonyms: ancestors

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