offspring
Children or young
Offspring are a person's or animal's children or young.
The word works as both singular and plural: Their offspring inherited the estate, The mare and her offspring grazed together.
It extends to anything produced or generated by something else: The album was the offspring of their collaboration.
More formal than kids but less clinical than progeny.
Those who inherit
- successorsThose who follow after
- posterityFuture generations collectively
- issuePoint of contention
- scionsHeirs or plant shoots
future generations · next generation · grandchildren · great-grandchildren · inheritors · lineage · bloodline · family line
Young human offspring
- babiesVery young children
- infantsVery young children
- toddlersVery young children
- youngstersPeople not yet adult
juveniles · minors · teens · adolescents · newborns · tots · tykes · sons
Family line of descent
- pedigreeRecord of descent
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- family treeChart of ancestors
heritage · extraction · parentage · forebears · progenitors · dynasty · house · clan
Copying or procreation
- fertilizationGamete fusion creating zygote
- conceptionFormation of an idea
- gestationCarrying offspring in womb
- birthComing into the world
procreation · breeding · genetics · heredity · DNA · chromosomes · gametes · zygote
young
Not yet mature
calves · foals · chicks · hatchlings · fry · fledglings · whelps · litter · brood · spawn
heirs
Those who inherit
- successorsThose who follow after
- posterityFuture generations collectively
- issuePoint of contention
scions · future generations · next generation · grandchildren · great-grandchildren · inheritors · lineage · bloodline · family line · seed
kids
Young human offspring
youngsters · juveniles · minors · teens · adolescents · newborns · tots · tykes · sons · daughters
ancestry
Family line of descent
family tree · heritage · extraction · parentage · forebears · progenitors · dynasty · house · clan · kinship
reproduction
Copying or procreation
- fertilizationGamete fusion creating zygote
- conceptionFormation of an idea
- gestationCarrying offspring in womb
birth · procreation · breeding · genetics · heredity · DNA · chromosomes · gametes · zygote · embryo
seedlings
Newly germinated plants
runners · suckers · offshoots · cuttings · clones · grafts · plantlets · spores · propagules
- reproductionreproduction, birth, baby, egg, sperm
- ancestryancestors, kinship, ancestor, clan, ancestry
- kinfolkkin, kindred, kinfolk, kinsmen, relatives
- life cycleslife cycle, birth, death, growth, metamorphosis
- animal husbandrybreeding, sire, dam, stud, captive breeding
- fertilityfertility, fecundity, infertility, conception, reproduction
offspringparent
Mother or father
ancestor · progenitor · forebear · forefather · forbear
- The Offspring
- royal offspringMonarch's child