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offspring
English
Etymology
From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- +? spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??fsp???/
- (US) enPR: äf?spr?ng, IPA(key): /??fsp???/, /??fsp???/
Noun
offspring (plural offspring or offsprings)
- A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
- All of a person's descendants, including further generations.
- An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
- (computing) A process launched by another process.
Usage notes
- The plural offsprings is mainly used for the computing sense.
Synonyms
- (daughter(s) and/or son(s)): baby/babies, child/children, fruit of one's loins, issue (plural only), get, kid/kids
- (all descendants): binary clone, descendants, fruit of one's loins, get, lineage, progeny, seed
Antonyms
- (daughter(s) and/or son(s)): genitor (rare), parent, progenitor, father (male), mother (female)
- (descendants): ancestors, forbears/forebears, forefathers
Derived terms
- donor offspring
- grandoffspring
- parent-offspring conflict
Translations
offspring From the web:
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- offsprings or offspring
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fecundity
English
Alternative forms
- fœcundity (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin f?cundit?s (“fruitfulness, fertility”), from f?cundus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /f??k?nd?t?/
- Hyphenation: fe?cun?di?ty
Noun
fecundity (usually uncountable, plural fecundities)
- Ability to produce offspring.
- 2006, Neil Gaiman, “Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett” in: Good Omens, Corgi, p. 410
- In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.
- 2006, Neil Gaiman, “Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett” in: Good Omens, Corgi, p. 410
- Ability to cause growth.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
Synonyms
- (ability to produce offspring): fertileness, fertility
Related terms
- fecund
- fecundation
Translations
Further reading
- fecundity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fecundity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- fecundity in the Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, English section, second edition, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Liège, 1982
- fecundity at OneLook Dictionary Search
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