Descendant vs. Offspring — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Descendant and Offspring
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Descendant
One whose descent can be traced to a particular individual or group
A descendant of Queen Victoria.
Descendants of a prize-winning horse.
Offspring
In biology, offspring are the young born of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms. Collective offspring may be known as a brood or progeny in a more general way.
Descendant
Something derived from a prototype or earlier form
Today's bicycles are descendants of the earlier velocipede.
Offspring
A person's child or children
The offspring of middle-class parents
Descendant
In astrology, the point of the ecliptic or the sign of the zodiac that sets in the west at the time of a person's birth or other event.
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Offspring
The organism or organisms resulting from sexual or asexual reproduction.
Descendant
Variant of descendent.
Offspring
A child or children of a parent or parents
The offspring of Zeus and Leto.
Descendant
Descending; going down
The elevator resumed its descendant trajectory.
Offspring
The result or product of something
"the glaciers, the offspring of the gentle snow" (John Muir).
Descendant
Descending from a biological ancestor.
Power in the kingdom is transferred in a descendant manner.
Offspring
A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
Descendant
Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.
Offspring
All of a person's descendants, including further generations.
Descendant
One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
Offspring
An animal or plant's progeny or young.
Descendant
(figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
Offspring
(figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.
Descendant
(biology) A later evolutionary type.
Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
Offspring
(computing) A process launched by another process.
Descendant
(linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
Offspring
The act of production; generation.
Descendant
(linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
Offspring
That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
To the gods aloneOur future offspring and our wives are known.
Descendant
Descendent.
Offspring
Origin; lineage; family.
Descendant
One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; - correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
Our first parents and their descendants.
The descendant of so many kings and emperors.
Offspring
The immediate descendants of a person;
She was the mother of many offspring
He died without issue
Descendant
A person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
Offspring
Something that comes into existence as a result;
Industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring
This skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts
Descendant
Going or coming down
Offspring
Any immature animal
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