as in offspring
the descendants of a person, animal, or plant
the rancher carefully examined the progeny of the new breed of cattle
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The custom-residential markets of Washington, D.C., Delaware, and Virginia each share in the distinction of being mostly concerned with country- and suburban-specific renovation and restoration, specifically of Colonial and Colonial Revival prototypes and their progeny.
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Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
But cyanobacteria have an evolutionary incentive to pass on relevant information to their progeny: Each cell divides into two identical clones, and each of those does as well, ad infinitum.
—Elizabeth Landau, quantamagazine.org, 11 Oct. 2024
The European Union, the principal liberal institutional progeny of the U.S. victory in the Cold War, has suffered the loss of the United Kingdom, and other member states flaunt its rules, as Poland has done regarding its standards on the independence of the judiciary.
—Barry R. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
This specimen offered is an F2 progeny of this original cross.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
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Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
But cyanobacteria have an evolutionary incentive to pass on relevant information to their progeny: Each cell divides into two identical clones, and each of those does as well, ad infinitum.
—Elizabeth Landau, quantamagazine.org, 11 Oct. 2024
The European Union, the principal liberal institutional progeny of the U.S. victory in the Cold War, has suffered the loss of the United Kingdom, and other member states flaunt its rules, as Poland has done regarding its standards on the independence of the judiciary.
—Barry R. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
This specimen offered is an F2 progeny of this original cross.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Progeny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/progeny. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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