英语词汇“descendant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	descendant
释义	de·scend·ant I. adjective also de·scend·ent \-dənt\ Etymology: Middle French & Latin; Middle French descendant, from Latin descendent-, descendens, present participle of descendere 1. : descending 1 2. : proceeding from an ancestor or source < eighth in the descendant line from the original immigrant > II. noun also descendent \“\ (-s) Etymology: French & Latin; descendant, from Latin descendent-, descendens, from descendent-, descendens, present participle 1. a. : one that is descended from another or from a common stock < the descendants of King David > < the several cultivated descendants of the native persimmon > — distinguished from ancestor, ascendant b. : a lineal or collateral blood relative usually of a later generation — compare issue 2. : something that derives its character directly from a precursor or prototype < the vertebral column is the altered descendant of the notochord > especially : an offshoot from an antecedent practice or idea < the modern signet ring is a descendant of the scarab ring — Elizabeth W. King > < the maypole dance is said to be a descendant of an ancient fertility dance > 3. : a follower or disciple who shows close adherence to the principles and methods of an earlier master in some literary, learned, or artistic specialty < though not all the descendants of Kant agree — J.G.Gray > • - in the descendant
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