FEMALE OFFSPRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does female offspring mean? 

• FEMALE OFFSPRING (noun)
  The noun FEMALE OFFSPRING has 1 sense:

1. a child who is female

  Familiarity information: FEMALE OFFSPRING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEMALE OFFSPRING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A child who is female

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("female offspring" is a kind of...):

female; female person (a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies)

child; kid (a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "female offspring"):

daughter; girl (a female human offspring)

Antonym:

male offspring (a child who is male)

 Context examples 

Female offspring also developed benign tumors at the lower concentrations.

(Low doses of arsenic cause cancer in male mice, NIH)

The researchers analysed the placentas of young (3-4 months old) and aged rats (9.5-10 months old) that were pregnant with male and female offspring.

(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)