Offspring and Type

Offspring

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

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

Type noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

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Offspring and type are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Offspring" instead a noun "Type".

Nearby Words: typical, typed

human	human offspring	human type
female	female offspring	female type
rare	rare offspring	rare type
best	best offspring	best type
Other adjectives: common, alien, single, small, powerful, actual, new, possible, older, magical.

When two people of different metatypes reproduce, the offspring is most likely to be human, but could potentially be of either parent's metatype or a third type.

Source: Random Species Offspring
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
All three male sphinxes can mate with the gynosphinx and have offspring of their own type, but gynosphinxes can only be born of an androsphinx father.

Source: One-Gender Race

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