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1) parents and children (family)

2) (to make) a quick, playful, jumping or skipping movement, e.g. of lambs, children (gambol)

3) a woman who lives with a family and teaches the children at home (governess)

4) the tendency to pass characteristics on to children etc (heredity)

5) possessing or showing honour; a title given to judges and some other officials, to the children of peers below the rank of Marquis, and (during debates) to member of the House of Commons (honourable)

6) a pleated skirt, worn as part of male dress in Scotland; similar skirt worn by women and children (kilt)

7) a school for children below five years old (kindergarten)

8) (especially children and animals) having long legs (leggy)

9) (of) the sex that does not give birth to children or young (male)

10) (an example of) a kind of hard stone with patterns, used when polished for building a sculpture; a small ball of coloured glass used in games played by children (marble)

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Meaning:
descendant

a person or animal that is descended from another one (that is mentioned)

person in line of ancestry

family

parents and children

kin, offspring; classification

posterity

people who will live after us; future generations

future generations

progeny

children; the young of an animal

offspring

CHILDREN as in Wiktionary
CHILDREN as in Wikipedia