progeny
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Is progeny a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.Examples: "I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny."; "I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny."; "One worm on a single plate can give rise to thousands of progeny after just a week or so."Synonyms: binary clone, descendant(s), fruit of one's loins, get, issue, lineage, offspringuncountable
2. (uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry.Examples: "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 ?"obsoleteuncountable
3. (countable, figurative) A result of a creative effort.Examples: "His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date."countablefiguratively
Definition source: Wiktionary