Polyglot Dictionary

descendencia

/desenˈdensja/

la noun C1

el (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
descendencias

Meaning

  1. offspring

    • No tuvo descendencia.

      He left no offspring.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

vástago

vástago specifically means "offspring, scion" in a literary or genealogical sense, an heir, and can also literally mean a plant shoot; descendencia is the general word for "descendants, offspring."

prole

prole is a common, informal word for "offspring, kids," often collective and slightly pejorative, like "brood"; descendencia is more formal, genealogical.

Similar in other languages

French

progéniture

progéniture is the French word for the same thing — both mean "offspring."

Portuguese

prole

prole is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "offspring."

Practice

1 What does descendencia mean?

2 Fill the gap: No tuvo ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches descendencia?

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