English Dictionary

progeny

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɹɒdʒəni/

名詞

不可算名詞 廃用 可算名詞 比喩的用法

(uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group. / (uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry. / (countable, figuratively) A result of a creative effort.

日本語の意味

子孫、後代（ある集団としての出生・子孫） / 血統、系統（血筋、家系） / （比喩的に）創作の成果（何かの結果として生み出された作品など）

The botanist examined the progeny of the hybrid plants to determine which traits were heritable.

その植物学者は、どの形質が遺伝するかを確かめるために、雑種植物の子孫を調べた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.

One worm on a single plate can give rise to thousands of progeny after just a week or so.

意味（2）

(uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry.

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 ?

意味（3）

(countable, figuratively) A result of a creative effort.

His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.

progenies （ plural ）