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descendant
Part of speech: AdjectiveDescendent.
Part of speech: NounOne who is descended from a special ancestor.
Part of speech: AdjectiveComing down; coming from a source.
Usage examples "descendant":- About 1655 a leader presented himself to the remnants of this warlike people, claiming to be the descendant and heir of the ancient Inca princes. - "The South American Republics Part I of II", Thomas C. Dawson.
- This book is the last direct descendant of Rymer’ s Short View. - "Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare", D. Nichol Smith.
- That energetic descendant of " emancipated woman" formed a partnership, literary of course, with the Marquis Alfieri, the nephew of the Italian poet. - "Chopin: The Man and His Music", James Huneker.