progeny

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: prog=e=ny

CIDE DICTIONARY

progeny, n. [OE. progenie, F. progénie, fr. L. progenies, fr. progignere. See Progenitor.].

 Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

progeny, n.
1 the offspring of a person or other organism.
2 a descendant or descendants.
3 an outcome or issue.

Etymology

ME f. OF progenie f. L progenies f. progignere (as PROGENITOR)

THESAURUS

progeny

breed, brood, children, descendants, descent, family, fruit, fry, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, heirs, hostages to fortune, inheritors, issue, kids, lineage, little ones, new generation, offspring, posterity, progeniture, rising generation, scions, seed, sons, spawn, sprouts, succession, successors, treasures, young, younglings, youngsters

ROGET THESAURUS

progeny

Posterity

N posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat, family, grandchildren, heirs, great-grandchild, child, son, daughter, butcha, bantling, scion, acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch, off-shoot, off- set, ramification, descendant, heir, heiress, heir-apparent, heir- presumptive, chip off the old block, heredity, rising generation, straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture, filial, diphyletic, the child is father of the man, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, like father, like son.