progeny

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/    美 /ˈpɹɑd͡ʒəni/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Offspring or descendants considered as a group. uncountable
    — I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.
  2. Descent, lineage, ancestry. obsolete,uncountable
    — Beſides, all French and France exclaimes on thee, / Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. / Who ioyn’ſt thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, / That will not truſt thee, but for profits ſake ?
  3. A result of a creative effort. countable,figuratively
    — His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.

词形变化

progenies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
interprogeny progenate
相关词
progenitive progenitor

词源

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