DESCENDANT

descendant

Noun

  1. One who is the progeny a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
    ''The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
  2. A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
    ''This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
  3. A later evolutionary type.
    ''Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
  4. A language that is descended from another.
    English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
  5. A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.

Adjective

  1. descending from a biological ancestor.
  2. proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.


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