LekhoriLekhoriDescending; going down.
The elevator resumed its descendant trajectory.
Descending from a biological ancestor.
Power in the kingdom is transferred in a descendant manner.
Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.
One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
Meronyms: issue, line, progeny; family; clan
From Middle English dessendaunte, borrowed from Middle French, from Latin dēscendēns, present participle of descendere, from dē + scandere (“to climb, ascend”).
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A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
A later evolutionary type.
Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.