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Female offspring   /fˈimˌeɪl ˈɔfsprˌɪŋ/   Listen
Female offspring

noun
1.
A child who is female.






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"Female offspring" Quotes from Famous Books



... recent evidence, there are two kinds of male germinal cells; one kind giving rise to female offspring and the other to male. In all probability, at the time of the marital relation, these varieties are deposited in the vagina in equal numbers; and, moreover, the mode of their production is such as to place absolutely beyond human ...
— The Prospective Mother - A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy • J. Morris Slemons

... notions were honestly expressed, however strange they may appear to others. Habit has brutalized them, or rendered them worse than brutes in regard to their female offspring. They derive profit, or save expense and some mortification, by destroying them, and readily believe anything that can tend to excuse the atrocity to themselves or to others. The facility with which men ...
— A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II • William Sleeman



Words linked to "Female offspring" :   child, kid, girl, male offspring, female person, daughter, female



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