Blood and Offspring

Blood

Blood noun - A group of persons who come from the same ancestor.

Usage example: in his mind, blood came before anything else, and he would not betray his criminal brother to the police

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Offspring and blood are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Offspring" instead a noun "Blood".

Offspring noun - The descendants of a person, animal, or plant.

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Blood and offspring are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Blood" instead a noun "Offspring".

human	human blood	human offspring
mortal	mortal blood	mortal offspring
normal	normal blood	normal offspring
common	common blood	common offspring
Other adjectives: alien, divine, actual, male, immortal, said, demon, magical, demonic, vampiric.

Another Heinlein example in I Will Fear No Evil, when protagonist Johann tells a friend that none of his three putative children were his biological offspring (all were blood type O, Johann type AB).

Source: Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Ironically, it's revealed that one has to have elven blood to use magic; thus, almost every single member of the team is descended from the offspring of elves and humans.

Source: Half Human Hybrid / Video Games
In Xena: Warrior Princess, the evil god Dahok requires the loss of "blood innocence" to bring forth his evil offspring, so his followers trick Gabrielle into committing murder.

Source: Blood Magic

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