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progeny Definition

prog·eny (präjə nē)

noun pl. -·nies

children, descendants, or offspring collectively; issue

Etymology: ME progenie < MFr < L progenies, descent, lineage, race, family < progignere: see progenitor

progeny Synonyms

progeny

n.

progeny Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • mating: Pure-bred level, applies to all males and females when the progeny of the mating is 7/8 and above.
  • cow: The progeny of all cows that have been affected with BSE are currently recorded by the Central Veterinary Laboratory at Weybridge.
  • animal: This included slaughtering the progeny of affected animals and restricting breeding from the progeny of affected animals.
  • cell: Labeled progeny of a single cell in the spinal cord, which is descendent from axial progenitors.
  • bicolours: The progeny of Oriental Bicolours which do not display white spotting.

Converse of object

  • produce: For example, the fertilization of an egg by a sperm to produce a progeny with a unique identity.
  • leave: In fact, the only British monarch that left progeny from whom William is not descended is the last King William ( IV ).
  • result: The resulting progeny were raised in the presence and absence of tetracycline in the culture medium.
  • have: The person died and did not have any further progeny to seed with the memory.
  • breed: Second, a dog may be bred, and it's progeny bred, before a late-onset problem is evident.
  • obtain: However among others the crosses are either unsuccessful or require specialized techniques to obtain the progeny.

Adjective modifier

  • male: Shall there be male progeny unto you, and female unto him?
  • own: Am I now to suffer at the hands of my own progeny?
  • female: When the flies were transferred to medium without tetracycline, no female progeny were recovered in a sample of more than 5000 males.
  • future: In this manner, Lilith did turn her back on God, and as such, consecrated her future progeny to the darkness.

Modifies a noun

  • testing: One method used was an epidemiological study to track the offspring, produced during progeny testing, of AI bulls.
  • virus: This in turn leads to an increase in the production of progeny virus within the host.
  • show: The lamb was also part of the winning 3 lambs at the Welshpool progeny show, and had come on well since then.
  • virions: The structural ( capsid ) protein then probably packages the viral genome to form progeny virions.