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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offshoot, descendant |
| Synonyms: | begotten, branch, brood, child, chip off old block, graft, heir, heiress, issue, junior, offspring, progeny, seed, shoot, slip, sprout, successor, twig |
| Antonyms: | cause, root, source |
| Main Entry: | descendant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in line of ancestry |
| Synonyms: | brood, child, children, chip off old block, get*, heir, issue, kin, offshoot, offspring, posterity, product, progeniture, progeny, scion, seed, spin-off |
| Antonyms: | ascendant, predecessor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | graft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transplant |
| Synonyms: | bud*, hybridization, implant, jointure, scion, shoot, slip, splice, sprout, union |
| Notes: | a graft is one thing attached to another by insertion or implantation so it becomes part of it; a splice is the joining of two things end-to-end to make a new whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heir |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who inherits possessions |
| Synonyms: | beneficiary, crown prince/princess, devisee, grantee, heritor, inheritor, next in line, scion, successor |
| Notes: | hair is any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; a hare is a large, long-eared and long-legged rabbit; an heir is a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another |
| Antonyms: | heiress |
| Main Entry: | offspring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | child, children |
| Synonyms: | baby, bambino, brood, chip off old block, cub, descendant, family, generation, heir, heredity, issue, kid*, lineage, offshoot, posterity, produce, progeniture, progeny, pup, scion, seed, spawn, succession, successor, young |
| Antonyms: | parent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | successor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heir |
| Synonyms: | beneficiary, descendant, follower, heritor, inheritor, next in line, replacement, scion |
| Main Entry: | son |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male child |
| Synonyms: | boy, dependent, descendant, heir, junior, offspring, scion |
| Main Entry: | twig |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small branch |
| Synonyms: | branch, limb, offshoot, scion, shoot, spray, sprig, switch |
| Main Entry: | brood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cluster of children |
| Synonyms: | begats, breed, chicks, clutch, descendants, family, flock, hatch, infants, issue, litter, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, young |
| Antonyms: | child |
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