Cubs and Offspring

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Offspring and cubs are semantically related. in young topic. In some cases you can use "Offspring" instead a noun "Cubs".

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

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Cubs and offspring are semantically related. You can use "Cubs" instead a noun "Offspring".

Cubs have an awareness of their parents, but adults have no hand or interest in the training and growth of their offspring.

Source: No Blood Ties
Perhaps as a callback to this, in the seventh book the same character refers to the hypothetical offspring of an heroic werewolf as "cubs", in a context that makes it clear that he's making a rather offensive joke.

Source: Early Installment Weirdness / Literature
On the Pottermore site, in a recent update for Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling said that, once, a werewolf couple mated and produced offspring that were physically wolves, but of much higher intelligence; their cubs were in Hogwarts' custody and put into the Forbidden Forest.

Source: Noodle Incident / Literature

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