• Synonyms: offspring, progeny, issue
  Meaning: the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"

• He had for pets a Cat and a kitten, its progeny.
• 'Was celebrating in song her fair progeny whose days were to be long, and to know no sickness.
• Thus, also, do authors beget authors, and having produced a numerous progeny, in a good old age they sleep with their fathers, that is to say, with the authors who preceded them--and from whom they had stolen.
• Thus it is in the clearing of our American woodlands; where we burn down a forest of stately pines, a progeny of dwarf oaks start up in their place; and we never see the prostrate trunk of a tree mouldering into soil, but it gives birth to a whole tribe of fungi.
• As the desire of well-being is universal--as fortunes are slender or fluctuating--as everyone wants either to increase his own resources, or to provide fresh ones for his progeny, men clearly see that it is profit which, if not wholly, at least partially, leads them to work.

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