PROGENY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does progeny mean? 

• PROGENY (noun)
  The noun PROGENY has 1 sense:

1. the immediate descendants of a person

  Familiarity information: PROGENY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROGENY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The immediate descendants of a person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

issue; offspring; progeny

Context example:

he died without issue

Hypernyms ("progeny" is a kind of...):

relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "progeny"):

baby (the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young))

bastard; by-blow; illegitimate; illegitimate child; love child; whoreson (the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents)

child; kid (a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age)

eldest; firstborn (the offspring who came first in the order of birth)

grandchild (a child of your son or daughter)

heir; successor (a person who inherits some title or office)

 Context examples 

In avoiding recognition and removal by the mismatch repair system, a Mutation Fixation involves stabilization of a DNA sequence alteration in both strands so that the sequence change is propagated to progeny cells.

(Mutation Fixation, NCI Thesaurus)

Colony forming unit (CFU) is the minimum number of separable cells, which is able to produce a visible colony of progeny.

(Colony Forming Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

The result is that the strong and the progeny of the strong survive, and, so long as the struggle obtains, the strength of each generation increases.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A specific individual microbe and its genetically identical progeny separated on a single occasion from a sample taken from a host or culture system.

(Isolate, NCI Thesaurus)

Disruptions in this process may result in aneuploidy of the resulting gametes, infertility in affected patients and trisomy in progeny.

(Meiotic Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)

Any mutation that appears in the gametes and which will therefore be transmitted to the progeny with some frequency.

(Germline mutation, NCI Thesaurus)

The progeny of two crosses that lacked recessive embryonic phenotypes through 5 or 6 days of development were selected as founders of two distinct lethal free lines that were designated TAB-5 and TAB-14.

(AB/Tubingen Zebrafish, NCI Thesaurus)

The resultant progeny inherits physical distinctive traits indicative of the specific parent gene.

(Phenocopy Alteration, NCI Thesaurus)

Her instinctive fear of the father of her progeny was toning down.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener’s helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)