Word:progeny
Location in text: page 38 paragraph 1
Sentence in text:By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early you
, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed
and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never
even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed
and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never
even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
What I think it means:a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring.
What it means in context:a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring.
My great grandma is my progeny of me.
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