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• There is no mixed-race or other category that classifies the product or progeny of a miscegenistic union.1995, Alex M. Johnson Jr., “How Race and Poverty Intersect to Prevent Integration”, in U. of Pennsylvania Law Review, vol. 143, no. 5, p.…. From the entry miscegenistic
• The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.1981, Henry Foster, The Mouse in Biomedical Research, page 96. From the entry mating
• Progeny were closely culled and crossbacked with emphasis on fertility, mothering ability, and gain ability.1974, Farmers' Bulletin, page 21. From the entry crossback
• Only a miserable remnant of the oyster's progeny arrives at the stage of adult oysterhood.1934, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection, volume 2482, page 64. From the entry oysterhood
• For Collier Brandt, the father of all this numerous progeny, was a Mormon with four wives.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 7, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC. From the entry urchin
• Katabolic tendencies, depending upon deficient nutrition (trophesy, physiological disintegration), determine predominant maleness in the progeny.1904, Edward Parker Davis, A Treatise on obstetrics for students and practitioners, page 68. From the entry trophesy
• In both progenies, electrodense deposits were observed between the cell walls of the foliar mesophyll (Figs 1D and 2D).2015 July 6, “Molecular, Biochemical and Ultrastructural Changes Induced by Pb Toxicity in Seedlings of Theobroma cacao L.”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry electrodense
• The Mummy belongs in a chapter devoted to one-shots as its progeny are different breeds rather than direct sequels.2013, B. Forshaw, British Gothic Cinema, →ISBN. From the entry one-shot
• It is thus an amphimictic haplont, but clonal selling gives progeny identical among themselves and with their parents.1988, Graham Bell, Sex and Death in Protozoa: The History of Obsession, Cambridge University Press, page 12. From the entry haplont
• An interesting genetic phenomenon is paramutation, where a methylated epiallele can silence a paramutable allele in heterozygous progeny with the acquisition of methylated DNA.2016 January 8, “Locus- and Site-Specific DNA Methylation of 19 kDa Zein Genes in Maize”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry paramutable
• Disorganization in tilacoidal membranes, poorly developed chloroplasts (Fig 1E ), and rupture of the nuclear membrane (Fig 1F ), were verified in this progeny.2015 July 6, “Molecular, Biochemical and Ultrastructural Changes Induced by Pb Toxicity in Seedlings of Theobroma cacao L.”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry tilacoidal
• What’s worse is the whole Twitionary, which encourages people to neologize new Twitterisms, making us all talk like we’re the progeny of Elmer Fudd.2009, Janelle Randazza, Go Tweet Yourself: 365 Reasons Why Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and Other Social Networking Sites Suck, Adams…. From the entry twitterism
• Through this hypothesized mechanism, a selfish virus would reduce the probability that other co-infecting genotypes contribute the expected share of their genes to the progeny.2005 August 4, Robert Desharnais, Population Dynamics and Laboratory Ecology, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 321. From the entry selfish
• The progeny of that nail have been bent and twisted into what we all know and love as roll overs, kickbacks, and thumper-bumpers.1973, Doug Anderson, “Pinball Wizard”, in Texas Monthly, volume 1, number 7, August 1973, page 84. From the entry kickback
• At mountain resorts it happens not infrequently that one beholds such a pair driving before them a numerous progeny all properly behorsed.1925, William George Langworthy Taylor, The Saddle Horse, page 245. From the entry behorsed
• Even before becoming a father myself, I used to daydream about the pure joy of introducing my progeny to the gooey, chocolaty, graham-crackery decadence of a perfectly crafted s’more.2014, Dave Engledow, “Day 258”, in Confessions of the World’s Best Father, London: Michael Joseph, Penguin Books, →ISBN. From the entry graham-crackery
• This runs counter to the play, where Grandpa is always benignly indulgent of all his zany progeny and their equally zany spouses, and is even somewhat zany himself.2013, William Paul, “No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and the Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it with You…. From the entry zany
• The defectiveness of the clone becomes progrssively manifest both in the maturative and the proliferative activity of the progeny, which expands due to a still unexplained biological cause.2012, F. Schmalzl, K.-P. Hellriegel, “Preleukemia -- Problems and Trends”, in F. Schmalzl, K.-P. Hellriegel, editor, Preleukemia. From the entry maturative
• Or, larger mothers might have not necessarily more progeny but more fit ones, while smaller size might be an advantage to the males, allowing them to get around faster.2005 [1992], Jeanne Hanson, Deane Morrison, The World's Oddest and Most Wonderful Mammals, Insects, Birds and Plants, page 218. From the entry puzzlement
• The view that one parent tale in one fixed location spawned numerous progeny the world over has come to be known as the theory of monogenesis and diffusion.2003, Maria Tatar, The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry monogenesis
• "Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 82. From the entry scornfully

Meaning of progeny

1. noun Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
2. noun Descent, lineage, ancestry.
3. noun A result of a creative effort.

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How do you use progeny in a sentence?

Progeny is used as a noun. For example: “I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.”

What is a short sentence with progeny?

“His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.”

What does progeny mean?

Progeny means offspring or descendants considered as a group.