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descendant
[ dih-sen-duhnt ]
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
descendant
1/ 诲瑟藞蝉蓻苍诲蓹苍迟 /
noun
- a person, animal, or plant when described as descended from an individual, race, species, etc
- something that derives or is descended from an earlier form
adjective
- a variant spelling of descendent
Descendant
2/ 诲瑟藞蝉蓻苍诲蓹苍迟 /
noun
- astrology the point on the ecliptic lying directly opposite the Ascendant
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of descendant1
Example Sentences
Today their descendants make up a diaspora of nearly six million stretching from the United States and Canada to France, Germany, Japan and Taiwan.
Black people in my family and community were, of course, descendants of the enslaved.
G枚ransson absorbed his dad鈥檚 passions and mutated them into a personal obsession with Metallica, an electric descendant of the blues, in the process becoming a guitar player proficient in everything from thrash metal to jazz.
A large part of the reason they could be identified as the king was some surviving descendants had been identified and their DNA could be compared to the skeleton.
A detective in the tradition of Benoit Blanc and other modern descendants of the Agatha Christie whodunnit, she knows she鈥檚 usually the smartest person in the room and has no time for idiocy.
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