Parents vs Offspring - What's the difference?
parents | offspring |
(parent)
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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, title= (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.
(computing) A process launched by another process.
As nouns the difference between parents and offspring
is that parents is plural of lang=en while offspring is a person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.As a verb parents
is third-person singular of parent.parents
English
Noun
(head)- I like hanging out with my parents , but my friends think it's weird.
Synonyms
* folks * parentals * old fogies * 'rentsVerb
(head)Anagrams
* ----offspring
English
Noun
(en-noun)Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}