Definition of "offspring"

offspring

/ˈɒfspɹɪŋ/

noun
plural offspring or offsprings
1. A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
2. Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
3. An animal or plant's progeny or young.
  Quotations
  In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
  2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
4. (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
5. (computing) A process launched by another process.