female offspring

collocation in English

meaningsoffemaleandoffspring

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female
adjective
uk
/ˈfiː.meɪl/us
/ˈfiː.meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or ...
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offspring
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɒf.sprɪŋ/us
/ˈɑːf.sprɪŋ/
the young of ...
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(Definition offemaleandoffspringfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is further supported by the failure of matings between representatives of the different races to produce fertilefemaleoffspring.
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Among the daughters however, six survivors had fivefemaleoffspring, a replacement of 0-833.
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The parasitoid is thelytokous, reproduction is exclusively female with onlyfemaleoffspring.
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The impact of parental alcohol use disorders was comparable for male andfemaleoffspring.
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By contrast, infemaleoffspring, the growth restriction was associated with impaired glucose tolerance and lower insulin secretion during a glucose tolerance test.
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Patrician families needed to place their surplusfemaleoffspringin the convent, as this was cheaper than marriage.
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From these, 10 males and 10 females were randomly sampled and mated to produce 200 male and 200femaleoffspring.
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In the latter part of the parasitoids' lives, however,femaleoffspringbecame rare, or absent, as the parasitoids aged.
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By contrast, no effects on body weight gain or insulin sensitivity were observed infemaleoffspring.
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Among the first generation, eight surviving females had 20femaleoffspring, a replacement of 2-5.
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For female groups that were mated with an intersex crayfish, the total percentage of intersex plusfemaleoffspringwas 75 % of the progeny in any specific batch (data not shown).
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For millennia, maybe since the beginning of consciousness, the community of these women and their male andfemaleoffspringloved, thanked, and send praises to this earth.
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All associations were tested for interaction with gender of the respondent, and in cases of a significant interaction, associations were then determined for male andfemaleoffspring.
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