| 词汇 | offspring |
| 释义 | offspring noun[ C ] uk /ˈɒf.sprɪŋ/ us /ˈɑːf.sprɪŋ/pluraloffspring C2 the young of an animal: （动物的）幼崽，崽兽 In the case of the guinea pig, the number of offspring varies between two and five.以豚鼠为例，它一胎产2到5个幼仔。 C2humorous or formal a person's children: （人的）后代，子女，子嗣 Tom's sister came over on Saturday with all her offspring.汤姆的姐姐星期六带着她的一大群子女过来串门。 your child childWe have three children, two girls and a boy. sonMy son is getting married in the spring. daughterHer daughter works for a multinational in the Netherlands. kidMy two kids are both grown up now. offspringI'm sure you'll be relieved once your offspring grow up and leave home. broodMy sister descended on me with her brood of five. Animal young baby calf calves chick colt cygnet fawn foal fry gosling hatchling heifer joey litter owlet peachick piglet poult puggle spawn You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Parents & children offspring | American Dictionaryoffspring noun[ C ] us/ˈɔf·sprɪŋ/pluraloffspring the young of an animal, or a person’s children: Champion horses have numerous offspring. Examples of offspringoffspring We conducted both analytic and simulation studies of artificial selection experiments in which effective population size (less than the number of surviving offsprings at each generation) is at least 100. What is new and important is that the present findings showed that parental cognitions also have an indirect contribution in a behavior such as gambling via offspring's cognitions. Will the parents of those children opting out of team games at 14 be expected to pay for their offspring's new enthusiasms? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have certainly had letters from supportive parents who have had to face this fact about their offspring's sexuality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many would rather stay ignorant of their offspring's action, because their ignorance covers up for their own moral inadequacies and misdemeanours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The hypothesis of genetically-based trade-offs in offspring performance on different hosts has been proposed but this has rarely been demonstrated. Right now the only hereditary relationship between parents and offspring is replication. We see this often in the transmission of gut symbionts from parent to offspring. Without genetics, offspring would be an average of their parents, and the eventual population, uniformly gray. The parents (indirectly) and the offspring (directly) benefit because the offspring's needs are satisfied without the cost of unwanted attention and a stressful display. Parental nutrition might influence offspring energy reserves and aptitude to undergo periods of starvation at the end of diapause. Men not only attempt to attract mates; they also invest in offspring. He suggests that individuals differ in their desire for close, intimate relationships and, as a result, in their willingness to invest in offspring. If more symmetrical men have greater ability to invest in offspring, they might invest more under such conditions. Offspring birth weights after maternal intrauterine undernutrition: a comparison within sibships. See all examples of offspring These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withoffspringoffspringThese are words often used in combination with offspring. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. female offspring This is further supported by the failure of matings between representatives of the different races to produce fertile femaleoffspring. fertile offspring Production of fertile offspring from genetically infertile male mice. future offspring With multifactorial traits, there is no constant risk to future offspring as there is with conditions due to single genes. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with offspring |
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