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Progeny is a formal, slightly old-fashioned or literary word for someone's children or - all the people who came after them in their family line. It's used in formal writing, in science (talking about the offspring of animals or plants), or when talking about a person's legacy, and would sound strange in casual daily talk, where you'd just say 'kids' or 'children.'
（正式用語）子孫、後代
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
progenynoun/ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/
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Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
- I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.
- I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.
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obsoleteDescent, lineage, ancestry.
- Beſides, all French and France exclaimes on thee, / Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. / Who ioyn’ſt thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, / That will not truſt thee, but for profits ſake ?
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A result of a creative effort.
- His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。