offspring
Substantivin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈɒfspɹɪŋ//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈɔfspɹɪŋ//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈɑfspɹɪŋ//
A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
Substantiv
- 1
A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.
- 2
Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
- 3
An animal or plant's progeny or young.
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
- 4
übertragenAnything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.
- 5
A process launched by another process.
Herkunft
From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.
Formen
- Plural
- offsprings
offspring · A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
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