progeny

prog·e·ny

noun \ˈprä-jə-nē\

plural prog·e·nies

Definition of PROGENY

1

a : descendants, children b : offspring of animals or plants

2

: outcome, product

3

: a body of followers, disciples, or successors

Examples of PROGENY

1. Many Americans are the progeny of immigrants.
2. The small plants are the progeny of an oak tree.
3. Their work is the progeny of many earlier studies.

Origin of PROGENY

Middle English progenie, from Anglo-French, from Latin progenies, from progignere

First Known Use: 14th century

Related to PROGENY

Synonyms: fruit, get, issue, posterity, offspring, seed, spawn

Related Words: brood, hatch, litter, young; child, scion; family, kin; lineage, stock

Near Antonyms: ancestor, antecedent, father, forebear (also forbear), forebearer, forefather, grandfather, parent, primogenitor, progenitor

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Other Genetics Terms

chimera, hermaphrodite, plasticity