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meaning 'a person's or animal's child or young' has the same form in the plural:

A person is a Jew if he or she is the offspring of a Jewish mother or has been converted to the Jewish faith—J. R. Baker, 1974

So these offspring shared in the eventually growing prosperity...of the region—E. Gellner, 1983.

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noun

1. A group consisting of those descended directly from the same parents or ancestors: brood, get, issue, posterity, progeny, seed. See kin.
2. One descended directly from the same parents or ancestors: child, descendant, progeny, scion. See kin.

n

Definition: child, children
Antonyms: parent

IN BRIEF: The young of a person or animal.

Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps. — Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978), American poet and author.

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Progeny generally; includes calf, lamb, kid, pig, foal, chicken, poult, duckling, puppy, kitten, cria.

For a list of words related to offspring, see:

• Kinship and Ancestry - offspring: children
• Names and Relationships - offspring: child or children

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - afkom, efterkommer(e), resultat, produkt

Nederlands (Dutch)
nageslacht, afstammeling, kroost, vrucht(en)

Français (French)
n. - progéniture

Deutsch (German)
n. - Nachkommenschaft, Junge

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γόνος, απόγονος, αποτέλεσμα, προϊόν

Italiano (Italian)
progenie, discendente

Português (Portuguese)
n. - filho (m), prole (f)

Русский (Russian)
потомство

Español (Spanish)
n. - progenie, progenitura, descendencia, hijo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - avkomma, ättling, barn

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
子孙, 产物, 后代

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 子孫, 產物, 後代

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 자식, 결과

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 子孫, 子, 生じたもの, 結果, 所産

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ذريه, نتاج‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בן/בת, צאצא(ים), תולדה‬

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