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progeny
1. n. Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.
2. n. (obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry.
3. n. A result of a creative effort.
His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.

Example Sentences

Not only will they be substandard to their children, they also risk being despised by the very progeny they so carefully created.  Your irate father stormed out of his cabin, grasped your boots from my hand, and instructed me to inform his accidental progeny to await his gross displeasure.

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