English Dictionary

progeny

/ˈpɹɒdʒəni/

noun

(uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group. / (uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry. / (countable, figuratively) A result of a creative effort.

She was proud of her progeny.

意味（1）

(uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.

One worm on a single plate can give rise to thousands of progeny after just a week or so.

意味（2）

(uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry.

Beſides, all French and France exclaimes on thee, / Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. / Who ioyn’ſt thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, / That will not truſt thee, but for profits ſake ?

意味（3）

(countable, figuratively) A result of a creative effort.

His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.