brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs;
great-grandchild.
child, son, daughter; butcha†; bantling, scion; acrospire†,
plumule†, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit†, branch; off-shoot, off-
set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-
presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.
straight descent, sonship†, line, lineage, filiation†,
primogeniture.
Adj. filial; diphyletic†.
Phr. the child is father of the man [Wordsworth]; the fruit doesn't
fall far from the tree, like father, like son.