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单词 offspring
释义
offspring
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɒf.sprɪŋ/us
/ˈɑːf.sprɪŋ/
pluraloffspring
C2
theyoungof ananimal:
（动物的）幼崽，崽兽
In thecaseof theguineapig, thenumberof offspringvariesbetween two and five.以豚鼠为例，它一胎产2到5个幼仔。
C2humorousorformal
a person'schildren:
（人的）后代，子女，子嗣
Tom'ssistercame over onSaturdaywith all her offspring.汤姆的姐姐星期六带着她的一大群子女过来串门。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
your child
  • childWe have three children, two girls and a boy.
  • sonMy son is getting married in the spring.
  • daughterHer daughter works for a multinational in the Netherlands.
  • kidMy two kids are both grown up now.
  • offspringI'm sure you'll be relieved once your offspring grow up and leave home.
  • broodMy sister descended on me with her brood of five.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Animal young
  • baby
  • calf
  • calves
  • chick
  • colt
  • cygnet
  • fawn
  • foal
  • fry
  • gosling
  • hatchling
  • heifer
  • joey
  • litter
  • owlet
  • peachick
  • piglet
  • poult
  • puggle
  • spawn
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Parents & children
(Definition ofoffspringfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

offspring| American Dictionary

offspring
noun[C]
us
/ˈɔf·sprɪŋ/
pluraloffspring
theyoungof ananimal, or a person’schildren:
Championhorseshavenumerousoffspring.
(Definition ofoffspringfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoffspring

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We conducted both analytic and simulation studies of artificial selection experiments in which effective population size (less than the number of surviving offsprings at each generation) is at least 100.
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What is new and important is that the present findings showed that parental cognitions also have an indirect contribution in a behavior such as gambling via offspring's cognitions.
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Will the parents of those children opting out of team games at 14 be expected to pay for their offspring's new enthusiasms?
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I have certainly had letters from supportive parents who have had to face this fact about their offspring's sexuality.
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Many would rather stay ignorant of their offspring's action, because their ignorance covers up for their own moral inadequacies and misdemeanours.
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In many cases, the children would benefit and parents would feel that their children were not being treated as second-class offsprings.
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The hypothesis of genetically-based trade-offs inoffspringperformance on different hosts has been proposed but this has rarely been demonstrated.
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Right now the only hereditary relationship between parents andoffspringis replication.
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We see this often in the transmission of gut symbionts from parent tooffspring.
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Without genetics,offspringwould be an average of their parents, and the eventual population, uniformly gray.
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The parents (indirectly) and theoffspring(directly) benefit because the offspring's needs are satisfied without the cost of unwanted attention and a stressful display.
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Parental nutrition might influenceoffspringenergy reserves and aptitude to undergo periods of starvation at the end of diapause.
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Men not only attempt to attract mates; they also invest inoffspring.
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He suggests that individuals differ in their desire for close, intimate relationships and, as a result, in their willingness to invest inoffspring.
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If more symmetrical men have greater ability to invest inoffspring, they might invest more under such conditions.
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Collocationswithoffspring

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female offspring
This is further supported by the failure of matings between representatives of the different races to produce fertilefemaleoffspring.
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fertile offspring
Production of fertile offspring from genetically infertile male mice.
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future offspring
With multifactorial traits, there is no constant risk to future offspring as there is with conditions due to single genes.
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