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Noun: offspring  'óf,spring
  1. The immediate descendants of a person
    "she was the mother of many offspring";
    - progeny, issue
     
  2. Something that comes into existence as a result
    "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring";
    - materialization, materialisation [Brit]
     
  3. Any immature animal
    - young

Derived forms: offsprings

Type of: animal, animate being, beast, brute, consequence, creature, effect, event, fauna, flesh and blood, issue, outcome, relation, relative, result, upshot

Encyclopedia: Offspring, The