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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | genealogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's family tree |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, blood line, derivation, descent, extraction, generation, genetics, heredity, history, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree, progeniture, stemma, stirps, stock, strain |
| Main Entry: | issue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | children |
| Synonyms: | brood, descendants, get, heirs, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed |
| Antonyms: | parent |
| 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: | posterity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | future generations |
| Synonyms: | breed, brood, children, descendants, family, heirs, issue, lineage, next generation, offspring, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, stock, succeeding generations, successors, unborn |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | progeny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offspring |
| Synonyms: | begats, breed, children, descendants, family, get*, issue, kids, lineage, posterity, progeniture, race, scions, seed, stock, young |
| Antonyms: | parent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | seed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | children |
| Synonyms: | brood, descendants, heirs, issue, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, race, scions, spawn, successors |
| Notes: | cede means to give over, surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another - while a seed is a small hard fruit or a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat a spore is a lone reproductive cell capable of producing a plant without combining with another cell; a seed develops from sexual recombination of genes from within one plant or two separate plants |
| Antonyms: | ancestor, parent |
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| Concept: | Posterity. |
| Category: | 3. POWER IN OPERATION |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild., child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation., straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture.
-adjectives
filial; diphyletic.
-phrases
"the child is father of the man" [Wordsworth].
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