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noun

a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring.

something deriving in appearance, function, or general character from an earlier form.

an adherent who follows closely the teachings, methods, practices, etc., of an earlier master, as in art, music, philosophy, etc.; disciple.

Astrology.

the point opposite the ascendant.

the point of the ecliptic or the sign and degree of the zodiac setting below the western horizon at the time of a birth or of an event.

the cusp of the seventh house.

adjective

descending; descendent.

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Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English descendaunt (adj.) < Old French descendant, present participle of descendre. See descend, -ant

Can be confused: ancestor, descendant.

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Among opponents are descendants of the sheriff who killed him.

It was an act of generosity and faith in the future good will of their descendants.

Lacks had been dead a quarter-century before her children found out that descendants of their mother's cells still lived.

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Among opponents are descendants of the sheriff who killed him.

It was an act of generosity and faith in the future good will of their descendants.

Lacks had been dead a quarter-century before her children found out that descendants of their mother's cells still lived.

Descendants of the unconquered groups still live there today.

Most paleontologists now believe living birds are descendants of certain predatory dinosaurs.

But a journalist's search for their descendants turned up surprising results.

Horner argues that chickens are the direct descendants of dinosaurs.

They and their descendants have lived in refugee camps ever since, not permitted to return.

And the boomers' descendants may have more cash but they are also likely to face far higher costs.

In addition, his male descendants were markedly prolific.

It seems the world of dinosaurs-and bird ancestors-was as diverse as that of their latter-day descendants.

But many species survived and evolved into their modern descendants.

Their descendants perfected the concept over more than a century and half.

Why that happened is a matter of abiding interest to anthropologically inclined descendants of those interloping moderns.

The two had a child and their descendants walk among us today, the story goes.

If my gene is spread enough, my descendants may develop noticeably superior knees based on my gene.

Museums include quillwork, baskets, and other artwork of present day descendants of emigrant tribes.

Until recently, sponges were believed to be modern descendants of the first animals.

It is unlikely that any of their descendants still live here.

Aardonyx celestae has many characteristics of the plant-eating herbivores that walked on two legs as well as their descendants.

The descendants of the stragglers can be seen today, out-breeding and out-warring each other.

Seen up close, the whooping crane leaves little doubt that birds are descendants of dinosaurs.

Regarding our own species, especially, there is a pervasive desire to know what our distant descendants might be like.

If this generation does not tackle climate change, its descendants will not think much of it.

The group that remains there are descendants of my female ancestor, and those who traveled with her.

If people cared about their descendants they wouldn't hesitate.

His descendants remain involved in the business today.

Descendants of that line became the energy centers of plant and animal cells.

His descendants had learned the lesson-the wrong one.

Today's dogs are descendants of wolves that lived tens of thousands of years ago.

Our descendants depend on our ecological wisdom, where each eco-citizen is directly responsable for his ressource usage.

We descendants of these animals were left with vestiges of their.

The modern descendants of a lineage that can be traced to the dawn of modern mammals, tarsiers are the smallest known primates.

Above the ground, a few feet over the mummies, thousands of their descendants were going about their daily lives.

Both creatures belong to a lineage that has no extant descendants.

Cobol, for all its sometime popularity, does not seem to have any intellectual descendants.

Lampreys and hagfish are these fishes' living descendants.

Regardless, it seems to be something that either ourselves or our descendants will experience.

Animals that fail to evolve or learn effective ways to avoid predation leave no descendants.

The law states that within any group of animals there is a tendency for descendants to grow progressively larger.

And keep on trucking because you are the descendants of thousands of years of the best mankind could produce.

These ancestral dogues, however, looked quite different from their descendants.

Such consanguineous pairing often resulted in weaker, more sickly descendants.

Decades later descendants returned to the atoll again, and rebooted it as a tourist destination.

We are apparently not going to leave the slightest scrap of fossil energy sources for our descendants.

There was no internal trend forcing the dawn horses and their descendants upwards towards.

These items, especially those of a religious nature, belong to the descendants of those who live on these lands.

Its denizens are humans, demihumans and humanoids, the descendants of the snake peoples' slaves.

The descendants of this species adapt to different niches and diverge into new lineages.

But her descendants still seem to enjoy an almost mystical bond with their employees.

All living things today are the descendants of those who answered affirmatively.

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Word Origin & History

descendant

1570s (adj.), c.1600 (n.), from Fr. descendant (13c.), prp. of descendre (see descend). Despite a tendency to use descendent for the adjective and descendant for the noun, descendant seems to be prevailing in all uses and appears 5 times more often than its rival in books

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printed since 1900. Cf. dependant.

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