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US
/dɪˈsɛndənt/
]
[ UK /dɪsˈɛndənt/ ]
[ UK /dɪsˈɛndənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- going or coming down
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proceeding by descent from an ancestor
descendent gene
NOUN
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor
How To Use descendent In A Sentence
- Americans need to get one thing straight: The Central Intelligence Agency is a spiritual descendent of Hitler's Gestapo. Obama May Let CIA Torturers Walk
- He said that we of the South had descended from the royal and aristocratic blood of the Huguenots of France, and of the cavaliers of England, etc.; but that the Yankees were the descendents of the crop-eared Puritans and witch burners, who came over in the Mayflower, and settled at Plymouth Rock. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
- Harue call me, I have 15 years of age, I'm Brazilian student of Japanese descendent.
- The American titled aristocracy was short-lived, though there is still an association of descendents of landgraves and cassiques in South Carolina today.
- An adopted child is deemed to be a descendent of his adoptive parent or parents.
- Events of ancient gene transfer can transmit genetic novelties to descendent lineages and subsequently shape their genetic systems.
- Territory held today by a given nation-state in the past likely belonged to a different political entity, one with other descendents.
- With no direct descendent, who will succeed to the title?
- Within a few generations Hera's pitiful descendents were mating with preverbal cavemen. MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica
- A clade is a parent and * all* of its descendents. A Disclaimer for Behe?
