descendant
Meaning of descendant
- a person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor.
she's a descendant of Charles Darwin
late Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘descending’): from French, present participle of descendre ‘to descend’ (see descend). The noun dates from the early 17th century.
Information about descendant
- It is a name.
- The plural form of descendant is: descendants.
- Languages in which descendant is used:
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Hyphenation of descendant
de-scen-dant
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- descendant is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
descendant synonyms
Meaning descendent:
Meaning a person or thing that succeeds another:
Meaning a descendant of a notable family:
Meaning a side shoot or branch on a plant:
Meaning a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death:
Meaning a person's child or children:
Meaning a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring:
Meaning an important topic or problem for debate or discussion:
Meaning a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit:
Meaning direct descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree:
Meaning a long, narrow mark or band:
Meaning all future generations of people:
Meaning the unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant:
Meaning the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food:
descendant antonyms
Meaning a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended:
Translation of descendant
- French: descendant, progéniture
- German: Abkömmling, Nachfahre
- Spanish: descendiente, sucesión, descendencia, progenitura, progenie
- Italian: discendente, discendenza, progenie, discendenti
- Portuguese: descendência
Anagrams of descendant
Words that rhyme with descendant
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