progeny

From Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒdʒəni/
• (General American) enPR: prŏj'ə-nē, IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑdʒəni/

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• Hyphenation: prog‧e‧ny

progeny (countable and uncountable, plural progenies)

1. (uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.

   I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.

2. (uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii], page 109, column 1:

     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 ?

3. (countable) A result of a creative effort.

   His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.

• (offspring): binary clone, descendant(s), fruit of one's loins, get, issue, lineage, offspring

• progenitor

• pyrogen