different between offspring vs yeanling
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:
- what offspring means
- offsprings or offspring
- why are they called offspring
yeanling
English
Alternative forms
- eanling
Etymology
From yean +? -ling.
Noun
yeanling (plural yeanlings)
- The newly born offspring of a goat or sheep.
- 1886, Anna Swanwick (translator), The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th edition, Eumenides, page 183, lines 903–904
- But in due season here may flocks of worth
- Twin yeanlings bear;
- But in due season here may flocks of worth
- 1886, Anna Swanwick (translator), The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th edition, Eumenides, page 183, lines 903–904
Translations
Anagrams
- Lingayen, enlaying
yeanling From the web:
- yeanling meaning
- what does yearling mean
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