Descendant
Descendent.
One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
Related Definitions:
Ancestor,
As,
Ascendant,
Correlative,
Descendent,
However,
Offspring,
One,
Or,
To,
Who
Descendant Quotations
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Ogden Nash
John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
Howard Dean
Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.
George C. Williams
Descendant Translations
descendant in French is descendant
descendant in German is Nachkomme, Nachkomme, Abkomme
descendant in Italian is discendente, discendente
descendant in Latin is successio
descendant in Norwegian is etterkommer
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