Offspring vs Marabou - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between offspring and marabou

is that offspring is a person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children while marabou is leptoptilos crumeniferus , a large wading bird native to africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging.

offspring

English

Noun

(en-noun)

A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.

All a person's descendants, including further generations.

An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.

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(figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.

(computing) A process launched by another process.

Usage notes

* The form offsprings is also used for the plural, especially the computing sense.

Synonyms

* baby/babies, child/children, issue (plural only), get * (all descendants) descendants, lineage, progeny, get, binary clone

Antonyms

* genitor (rare), parent, progenitor, father (male), mother (female) * (descendants) ancestors, forbears/forebears, forefathers

Derived terms

* donor offspring * parent-offspring conflict

marabou

English

(wikipedia marabou) (Leptoptilos crumeniferus)

Alternative forms

* marabu

Noun

(en noun)

Leptoptilos crumeniferus , a large wading bird native to Africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging.

(dated, US, Louisiana) A person, five-eighths of whose ancestry is black; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.

(Bartlett)

Synonyms

* (bird) adjutant stork, marabou stork