offspring

nomattesté dans les dialogues

Royaume-Uni//ˈɒfspɹɪŋ//
États-Unis//ˈɔfspɹɪŋ//
États-Unis//ˈɑfspɹɪŋ//

A person's daughter or son; a person's child.

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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
figuréAnything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.
5
A process launched by another process.

Étymologie

From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.

Formes

pluriel: offsprings

offline · Of a system, currently not connected (generally electrically)…offscreen · Existing or happening outside the frame of the cinema or…offshore · Moving away from the shore.

offspring · A person's daughter or son; a person's child.

often · Frequently; many times on different occasions.Ogden · A habitational surname from Old English.ogre · A large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically…

Les pages voisines — L'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.