Word of the Day: Catachrestical
The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.
Posterity Roget’s Thesaurus §167
N. posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, 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", "the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree", "like father, like son"
No Bible verses found for "Acrospire".