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The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body. King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown. Shak.

Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak.

The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.

from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis.

Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

The offspring of a Spaniard and an Indian; a Spanish-Indian mestizo. [Sp. Amer.]

The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto. [Local, U. S.]

The offspring of a hag. Shak.

A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race.

Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis.

That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.

The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.

Having hydrocephalus. "Hydrocephalous offspring." G. Eliot.

facility for the greatest number of people." The word "Ido" means in the language itself "offspring." The official name is: "Linguo Internaciona di la Delegitaro (Sistema Ido)." --I"dism (#), n. -- I"dist (#), n.

An offspring; progeny; child; scion. [Obs.] The tender imp was weaned. Fairfax.

Progeny; issue; offspring. All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. 1 Sam. ii. 33.

Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants. If the king Should without issue die. Shak.

The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare. Locke.

g line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings. Of his lineage am I, and his offspring By very line, as of the stock real. Chaucer.