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Another word for generation

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Noun

  1. The act of producing

    See also:

    production

  2. The act of producing offspring

    Antonyms:

  3. One cycle in the succession of parents and children

  4. The time required for a generation, sense 3

    See also:

    age

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Sentence Examples

  • This generation has no idea.

  • "My father is fifth generation," she mused.

  • I am third generation PMF, like Brady.

  • Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  • The independent plant which is generally attached to the soil by hair-like structures is the sexual generation, the sporophyte is a stalked or sessile capsule which remains always attached to the gametophyte from which it derives the whole or part of its nourishment.

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