progeny
20
7.3
- noun
- /ˈprɒdʒəni/
:
descendencia
- Theseus passed on this defect to his progeny, the Athenians, leaving them all sadly diminished.
- progeny of sire
- produce progeny
- normal progeny
X and the, you know, progeny of boomers.
- X and the, you know, progeny of boomers.
- The DNA has shown that at least one of Sally Hemings children was the progeny of a male Jefferson.
- Indeed, more than half of the iconic geniuses that I have studied chose not to marry and left no progeny.
- White and its progeny, which privilege the speech of judicial candidates over the integrity of courts, strain this compact to the limits and the results.
- So the AOIMSG was the progeny essentially of the AAR or Arrow.
- And he found that the progeny were either or they, they they were not.
- But we do have a sort of inclination to take care of and to love our our progeny.
Examples
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Gretchen and Victoria, his progeny, his tickets to genetic perpetuation, ventured out gingerly onto the terrace.
Fiction book (2002) -
And then if they have a lot of progeny, one of them may have the right one by luck.
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Even if I helped produce progeny for them, I felt no need to know about it.
Fiction book (2001) -
So you are the progeny of Johan.
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The progeny of Aurvandil lives still.
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In Irish-American Catholic eyes, the English and their American progeny were thoroughly Protestant.
Academic text (1996) -
The Quaker sold the boar's services and his progeny filled the neighboring farms.
Fiction book (2002) -
Tribal success, though, counted in increasing progeny and livestock, straining pasturage, water, and arable land.
Academic text (2008) -
Many experts believe that healthier diets can lead to stronger progeny in future generations.
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The professor studied the progeny of various plant species to understand their growth patterns.
Synonyms
145
3.4
A person, animal, or plant that comes from an ancestor
107
3.0
A person's children or the young of animals and plants
13
7.9
Children or grandchildren of a person
1
4.6
A person who comes from a particular ancestor
Children and later family members of a person or animal
Antonyms
How Many
20
7.3
24
4.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Progeny comes from Latin parts pro- meaning 'forward' and gignere meaning 'to produce', and it shares the same root as generate. So progeny are the people or animals produced by someone, that person's children or descendants.