Progeny Definition

Progeny Sentence Examples

• Having crossed yellow and green seeded peas both ways, he found that the progeny resulted in all yellow coloured seeds.

• The principle on which the work is based is that plants have their individualities and tend to transmit them to their progeny.

• Hybrid plants may be again crossed, or even re-hybridized, so as to produce a progeny of very mixed parentage.

• Among primitive savage races abortion is practised to a far less extent than infanticide, which offers a simpler way of getting rid of inconvenient progeny.

• The elder Darer was an esteemed craftsman and pious citizen, sometimes, as was natural, straitened in means by the pressure of his numerous progeny.