Noun: offspring
| Singular | offspring |
| Plural | offspring |
Sample Sentences
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We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.
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In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. [2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:]
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Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.
Nouns inflected like offspring
offspring,
otherkin,
ransomware,
hovercraft,
sheep,
aircraft,
Pokémon,
Eld's deer,
spacecraft,
malware,
Otherkin,
software,
deer,
Etymology
From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring. See: Old English Nouns '
ofspring', Icelandic Nouns '
afspringur'.