noun
pl. -·nies children, descendants, or offspring collectively; issue
Origin of progeny
Middle English progenie from Middle French from Classical Latin progenies, descent, lineage, race, family from progignere: see progenitor
A father spending time with his progeny.
- An example of progeny is a person's child.
- An example of progeny is a person's invention.
The definition of a progeny is an offspring, descendant or a creative result.
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progeny
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pl. progeny, or prog·e·nies- a. The organism or organisms resulting from sexual or asexual reproduction.b. A child or children of a parent or parents: claimed to be the progeny of the king.c. A person's descendants considered as a group.
- A result or product: lies that were the progeny of fear.
Origin of progeny
Middle English progeni from Old French progenie from Latin prōgeniēs from prōgignere to beget ; see progenitor .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural progenies)
- (uncountable) offspring or descendants.
- I treasure this 5 generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.
- (countable) result of a creative effort
- His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.
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From Old French progenie, from Latin progenies.
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progeny - Medical Definition
n.
pl. progeny or progenies- The organism or organisms resulting from sexual or asexual reproduction.
- A child or children of a parent or parents: claimed to be the progeny of the king.
- A person's descendants considered as a group.
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Sentence Examples
- Having crossed yellow and green seeded peas both ways, he found that the progeny resulted in all yellow coloured seeds.
- Eny very unlike the parent, or a mixed progeny showing various degrees of divergence.
- The wandering life of the larvae makes it uncerain whether any of the progeny of a given oyster-bed will settle within its area and so keep up its numbers.
- According to some, Niobe is the goddess of snow and winter, whose children, slain by Apollo and Artemis, symbolize the ice and snow melted by the sun in spring; according to others, she is an earth-goddess, whose progeny - vegetation and the fruits of the soil - is dried up and slain every summer by the shafts of the sun-god.
- Hybrid plants may be again crossed, or even re-hybridized, so as to produce a progeny of very mixed parentage.
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