progeny
IPA: prˈɑdʒʌni
noun
- (uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry.
- (countable, figurative) A result of a creative effort.
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Examples of "progeny" in Sentences
- It describes a celebration to honour famous progeny from the dust bowl province.
- At least one parent should be a U.S. citizen before the progeny is eligible would be my opinion.
- My opinion of Severus and his progeny is that they were active contributors to every problem that afflicted the long-suffering people of the empire.
- I suspect the scrofula, and consumption, to arise in the young progeny from the debility of the lymphatic and venous absorption produced in the parent by this innutritious fossile stimulus.
- It looks as if the answer you will get is that if an engineer designs an object that is self maintaining, able to supply its own energy needs and has reproductive and information storage capacity, then one will get a succession of progeny from the initial design.
- The New York Times in July reported that a handful of breeders in Switzerland, Britain and possibly other countries have imported semen and embryos from cloned animals or their progeny from the United States, seeking to create more consistently plump and productive livestock.
- a viviparous offspring without sexual intercourse for nine or ten successive generations; and then the progeny is both male and female, which cohabit, and from these new females are produced eggs, which endure the winter; the same process probably occurs in many other insects.p. The potent wish in the productive hour
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