Sprig vs Offspring - What's the difference?
sprig | offspring |
A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.
* Sir Walter Scott
A brad, or nail without a head.
A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
A house sparrow.
To decorate with sprigs
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 sprig and offspring
is that sprig is a small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray while offspring is a person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.As a verb sprig
is to decorate with sprigs.sprig
English
Noun
(en noun)- a sprig of laurel or of parsley
- a sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago
Verb
Anagrams
* *offspring
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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.}}