OFFSPRING


Meaning of OFFSPRING in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

leave

Head for head, such a lineage would leave twice as many offspring .

Eventually the rarer genes will disappear and the genetic types leaving fewer offspring will become extinct.

produce

Frequent feeding is the key to producing good offspring , assuming they inherit the potential from their parents.

From this viewpoint, gametes and the genes they carry are merely a device whereby organisms produce offspring like themselves.

Moreover, the mating of a human being to the federal bench seems to produce an offspring that lives approximately for ever.

And women in many developed countries are tending increasingly to adjust by forming non-legal unions that often produce offspring .

The better ones breed to produce offspring and to drive the process further.

It surely would be better for them to produce four slightly different offspring , each with its own particular strengths.

rear

Females are often limited further by the necessity to rear offspring by brooding or lactation.

Thousands of pages have been filled with theories on how to rear your offspring .

After fertilization one or both of the parents may look after and help to rear the offspring .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Hardly a day goes by without Mrs Molt or one of her offspring calling around to borrow something.

Parents with the disease are likely to pass it on to their offspring .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A combination of lax discipline and hostile attitudes on the part of both parents encourages very aggressive and poorly controlled behaviour in their offspring .

But this does put an exceedingly onerous burden on women who are required to bear, rear and look after the offspring .

Fears that radiotherapy would cause genetic mutations leading to handicaps in offspring appear to be groundless, according to studies among 3,000 survivors.

Only in mid-to late summer do they appear at the tunnel with their offspring .

They see that as having survival value for their offspring .

When they seemed to resemble each other rather too closely, he introduced random mutations in the offspring .

With a mixture of threats and promises, Halvorsen managed to evict his determined offspring , and led Floyd into the office.

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