progeny

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1. formalSSC the babies of animals or plants 〔动植物的〕后代，子代 SYN offspring

2 someone’s children – used humorously 〔某人的〕儿女，孩子〔幽默用法〕 SYN offspring

Sarah with her numerous progeny

萨拉和她的一大群孩子

3 something that develops from something else 衍生物

progeny of

Connolly’s book is the progeny of an earlier TV series.

康诺利的书是早先一部电视连续剧的衍生品。

Examples from the Corpus

progeny• The computer will simultaneously display a range of mutant progeny of the biomorph, differing from it in shape and/or colour pattern.• We are dooming our progeny by ruining the environment.• The salmons' progeny will be large enough to catch by next summer.• Successive progeny from the same dam often shown heavy infections.• Most of the time, no plants emerged, and in the few that did, the progeny were sterile.• Foreign currency profits translated into tuition for the progeny of the high command.• The courts quashed the plans on the grounds that the progeny would be hybrids, with no rights under the law.• The progeny from that chance cross yielded a triticale that was not only short but was much less sensitive to day length.• They die unmated and without progeny.

Origin progeny

(1200-1300) Old French progenie, from Latin progenies, from progignere; → PROGENITOR

Chinese

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Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 19406 COCA: 16855

progeny

The young of animals: baby, brood, bullock...