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progeny

UK/ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/US/ˈpɹɑd͡ʒəni/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,617 of 15,258leans written

Progeny are the children or young that come from somebody. His progeny, the progeny of the pair, numerous progeny.

It is formal and is used chiefly of animals and plants in breeding records, where progeny testing means judging a sire by how his offspring turn out. Of people it is faintly grand or faintly joking.

Definitions of progeny

  1. 1nounprogenyThe children or young that come from somebody.C1

    “The famous racehorse's progeny have won dozens of races.”

progeny is an offspring.

Where it comes from

Latin progenies comes from progignere, to beget, from pro- plus gignere, to bring forth.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *per-

  2. Latin

    prōgeniēs

  3. Old French

    progenie

  4. Middle English

    progenie

  5. English, today

    progeny

Built from

  • prōgignō · Latin — beget

From Middle English progenie, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

progeny in the wild

  • Collective offspring may be known as a brood or progeny.

    Offspring

  • According to Hippostratus, Aegyptus had his progeny by a single woman called Eurryroe, daughter of the river-god Nilus.

    Caliadne

  • Viral shedding is the expulsion and release of virus progeny following successful reproduction during a host cell infection.

    Viral shedding

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.