Offspring and Young

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Offspring

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

Usage example: the couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary surrounded by three generations of offspring

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Young is a synonym for offspring in children topic. In some cases you can use "Young" instead a noun "Offspring", when it comes to topics like animal, brood, child. popular alternative

Young

Young noun - Any immature animal.

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Offspring is a synonym for young in animal topic. You can use "Offspring" instead a noun "Young", if it concerns topics such as brood. popular alternative

Nearby Words: youngster, youngling, youngish

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female	female offspring	female young
best	best offspring	best young
alien	alien offspring	alien young
many	many offspring	many young
Other adjectives: healthy, monstrous, evil, young, new, remaining, several.

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Predators pick off these cannon-fodder offspring while their mom remains sheltered by her young, able to produce a new generation of disperser/breeders.

Source: Weaponized Offspring
In The Animals of Farthing Wood when Fox and Vixen's offspring are young pups they sound more like teenagers even though they're supposed to be the animal equivalent of 7 or 8 year old children at that point.

Source: Vocal Dissonance
Mother of a Thousand Young: The Brood Mother from Malodrax has thousands upon thousands of incredibly mutated offspring.

Source: Literature / Space Marine Battles

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