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offspring
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As a noun, offspring means a person's daughter or son.
Meanings of offspring
6 meaningsnoun
A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
An animal or plant's progeny or young.
figurativelyAnything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
“Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.”
computingA process launched by another process.
Something that comes into existence as a result
“industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring”
“this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts”
Similar: materialization, materialisation
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).