0 a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild:
He has no descendants.
We owe it to our descendants (= people younger than us who will live after we have died) to leave them a clean world to live in.
Freeride skiing is a hybrid, trick-oriented descendant of skateboarding and snowboarding.
The file-sharing service and its descendants allowed users to download music for free.
1 a person related to someone from an earlier generation (= all the people of about the same age within a particular family):
The Pennsylvania Dutch are descendants of early German immigrants.
Most of these people are refugees or the descendants of refugees.
Surely our descendants will wonder why we didn't notice, why we did nothing about greenhouse gases.
These wild horses are the living descendants of untold generations of Ozarks history.
He hopes descendants of these monkeys will spread beyond the reserve to repopulate nearby mountains.
What makes these mutations particularly dangerous is that they are passed down from a cell to all its descendants.
This celebrated Coen brothers debut is a worthy descendant of classic 1940s film noir.
Therefore, growth rates may increase over time simply because the initial and descendant cells are recovering from treatment rather than evolving.
Later they absorbed the surviving nomadic descendants of the authentic autochtons.
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