Progeny meaning

prŏj'ə-nē
The definition of a progeny is an offspring, descendant or a creative result.

An example of progeny is a person's child.

An example of progeny is a person's invention.

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A result or product.

Lies that were the progeny of fear.

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The organism or organisms resulting from sexual or asexual reproduction.
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A child or children of a parent or parents.

Claimed to be the progeny of the king.

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A person's descendants considered as a group.
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(uncountable) Offspring or descendants.

I treasure this 5 generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.

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(countable) Result of a creative effort.

His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.

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Children, descendants, or offspring collectively; issue.
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The organism or organisms resulting from sexual or asexual reproduction.
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A child or children of a parent or parents.

Claimed to be the progeny of the king.

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A person's descendants considered as a group.
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Origin of progeny

Middle English progeni from Old French progenie from Latin prōgeniēs from prōgignere to beget progenitor

Sentence Examples

  • eny very unlike the parent, or a mixed progeny showing various degrees of divergence.

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

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

  • 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.

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