Offspring Definition–noun, plural -spring, -springs. | 1. | children or young of a particular parent or progenitor. | | 2. | a child or animal in relation to its parent or parents. | | 4. | descendants collectively. | | 5. | the product, result, or effect of something: the offspring of an inventive mind. | |
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The waltz sired a great variety of offspring throughout Europe. Germany developed such variations of the waltz as the schottisch, with turns like those of the waltz. France had its airy balance ...
reproductive behaviour
Animals that do not care for their young must provide for the nutritional needs of their offspring. One way of doing so is by producing an egg with a sufficiently large yolk supply that the young, ...
perissodactyl
The perissodactyls bear well-developed (precocial) young, usually a single offspring. After the mother has assisted in removing the placenta and has licked her offspring in the usual mammalian ...
immune system
A newborn mammal has no opportunity to develop protective antibodies on its own, unless, as happens very rarely, it was infected while in the uterus. Yet it is born into an environment similar to its ...
tigon
offspring of a tiger and a lioness. The tigon, or tiglon, is a zoo-bred hybrid, as is the liger, the product of the reverse mating of a lion with a tigress.backcross
the mating of a hybrid organism (offspring of genetically unlike parents) with one of its parents or with an organism genetically similar to the parent. The backcross is useful in genetics studies ...
reproductive behaviour
The ability of an animal to identify its own offspring at an early stage is apparently not important in animals that nest or are solitary breeders; offspring in the nest belong to that parent. In ...
Ninsun
in Mesopotamian religion, Sumerian deity, city goddess of Kullab in the southern herding region. As Ninsun's name, Lady Wild Cow, indicates, she was originally represented in bovine form and was ...
family
a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household and interacting with each other in their respective social positions, usually those of spouses, ...
animal breeding
Crossbreeding involves the mating of animals from two breeds. Normally, breeds are chosen that have complementary traits that will enhance the offsprings' economic value. An example is the ...
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Related topics from Ask NewsAnaconda 3: Offspring DVD Review
IGN.com - Found Oct. 22, 2008
- Third in the Anaconda series, Offspring stars David Hasselhoff as Hammett — mercenary for hire.
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AltX goes from favoured offspring to ugly stepchild
Financial Mail - Found Oct. 22, 2008
Within a year the JSE's junior board has gone from favoured offspring to ugly stepchild.AltX, home to up-and-coming companies, turns five on...
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The Interaction-Ivrea offspring
Core77 - Found Oct. 22, 2008
Jan-Christoph Zoels and I thought it might be good to provide readers with some further insight on the offspring of the acclaimed but defunct...
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Gay sex and offspring, the beetles' way
Sify - Found Oct. 21, 2008
London: Gay sex can produce offspring, at least in the case of beetles, says a new study, which found that the 'kinky' activity gives males a chance
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How gay sex can produce offspring
New Scientist - Found Oct. 20, 2008
Male beetles with homosexual experience proved no more effective than virgin males at siring offspring when later allowed to copulate with a...
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Anaconda 3: The Offspring
Monsters and Critics - Found Oct. 20, 2008
Anaconda 3: The Offspring is now available at Amazon. As of yet, there is not a release date for the UK.
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Bavaria Sounds the Alarm: Owl Pairs are Having Fewer Offspring
Epoch Times - Found Oct. 18, 2008
Declining outlook for owl offspring? (Sven Richter/Pixelio.de)Since the mid-90s the number of owl offspring in Bavaria has been declining.
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The Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
AngryApe - Found Oct. 18, 2008
The Offspring announced a few weeks ago they were filming a video for 'You're Gonna Go Far, Kid', and here at last, it is.
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Anaconda 3: Offspring
Home Cinema Choice - Found Oct. 17, 2008
However, eve I was not prepared for the sheer awfulness that was about to be unleashed by the made-for-TV Anaconda 3: Offspring.
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PETA Calls On Big Brown's Owners to Geld One-Time Triple Crown ...
PETA - Found Oct. 14, 2008
'Just because Big Brown's injury didn't cost him his life doesn't mean that his offspring won't crash to the ground and have to be put out of...
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