0 the child, grandchild, great-grandchild etc of a person -- potomek
This is a photograph of my grandmother with all her descendants.
It extended to all lineal descendants of the degraded individual born subsequent to the act resulting in degradation.
In other cases descendants of siblings could be given priority over the offspring of the deceased.
The vast majority of adult descendants were married, widowed or divorced.
This means, by recursion, that even if we don't care directly for the well-being of our distant descendants, we do care for them indirectly.
Niche-constructing organisms may also substantially modify the environment of their offspring, and even more distant descendants.
For one group of their descendants, the magic strainer through which longsuffering language is to be poured is the supposedly sociopolitical criterion of 'sexism'.
Within each continent of origin there are no differences in standardized mean birth weights of descendants of the different component countries, with only three exceptions.
As a person's descendants branch out over successive generations, each generation gains only a portion of the earlier generation's claim.