offspring
n. C / Un. the children of a person or the young of an animal. You use this word when you want to sound more formal or scientific than saying 'kids' or 'babies'.
n. the immediate descendants of a person, animal, or plant. Often used in biological or legal contexts to refer to progeny collectively.
The birds are busy feeding their hungry offspring.
The study tracked the health of the original participants and their offspring over several decades.
In evolutionary biology, an organism's fitness is often measured by the number of viable offspring it produces that survive to reproductive age themselves.
From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.
The word is often treated as an invariant plural, meaning the form 'offspring' is used for both one child and many children.
She has four offsprings.She has four offspring.The word 'offspring' is usually an uncountable or invariant noun; adding an 's' for the plural is generally considered incorrect in standard English.