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What is an offspring?

What is an offspring? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
  2. All a person's descendants, including further generations.
  3. An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.
  4. (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.
  5. (computing) A process launched by another process.
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Deer are a fecund species, and they produce multiple offspring when stressed.
The female needs a male to fertilize her egg, even though it is she who carries offspring through pregnancy and childbirth.
Mongolian gerbil fathers' initial offspring avoidance has been a mystery, in that by day three they're dutiful dads.
Of the 339 eggs transferred by the research team, 90 managed to implant properly in the uterus, and 15 offspring were born.
Territorial sires fathered a greater proportion of the offspring of territorial dams than floater sires.
The peahen chooses to mate with the male that will most likely produce strong, healthy offspring.

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