progeny
Heirs of bloodline
Progeny are offspring—children, descendants, or the young of animals.
The word is somewhat formal and often appears in biological or legal contexts: The king's progeny would inherit the throne.
It extends to intellectual or creative products: The novel and its many progeny in the genre.
Though plural in sense, progeny can take singular or plural verbs.
Young human beings
- descendantsThose who come after
- heirsThose who inherit
- issuePoint of contention
- seedEmbryonic plant capsule
brood · young · scions · posterity · sons · daughters · babies · spawn
Ancestry through generations
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- pedigreeRecord of descent
- genealogyStudy of family descent
heritage · family tree · clan · house · tribe · kinfolk · kindred · roots
What's passed down
- bequestGift left by will
- heirloomInherited family treasure
- patrimonyInherited estate or legacy
- birthrightEntitlement from origin
endowment · estate · heritage · succession · trust · benefaction · entailment · devise
children
Young human beings
- descendantsThose who come after
- heirsThose who inherit
- issuePoint of contention
seed · brood · young · scions · posterity · sons · daughters · babies · spawn · litter
bloodline
Ancestry through generations
genealogy · heritage · family tree · clan · house · tribe · kinfolk · kindred · roots · forebears
legacy
What's passed down
birthright · endowment · estate · heritage · succession · trust · benefaction · entailment · devise · settlement
brainchild
Original idea one conceived
- creationMaking something exist
- productManufactured item for sale
- outgrowthSomething developing from another
offshoot · fruit · result · outcome · invention · work · opus · handiwork · spawn · derivative
- family termsparents, nuclear family, mothers, extended family, fathers
- humanityhuman, human being, humans, people, mankind
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- ancestryancestors, kinship, ancestor, clan, ancestry
- lineageancestry, royal dynasties, bloodline, noble houses, dynasty
- offspringchild, baby, son, daughter, kids
progenyancestor
Predecessor in lineage
forebear · forefather · progenitor · antecedent · grandfather
progenyprogenitor
Ancestor or originator
source · origin · precursor · originator · root
- progeny testingAssessing heredity through offspring