child

/t͡ʃaɪld/

A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)

Go easy on him: he is but a child.

(specifically) A female child, a girl.

(with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; a son or daughter.

My youngest child is forty-three this year.

The thirteenth Lenormand card.

A figurative offspring, particularly: