Lexic.us

Definition of Descendent

1. Noun. A person considered as descended from some ancestor or race.

2. Adjective. Going or coming down.

3. Adjective. Proceeding by descent from an ancestor. "Descendent gene"

Definition of Descendent

1. a. Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.

Definition of Descendent

1. [n -S]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Descendent

descants descant on Descartes Descartes' law descemet's membrane descemetitis descemetocele descend descend descendant

descendants descended descendens descendens cervicalis descendens hypoglossi descendent (current term) descendents descender descenders descendible

descending descending descending(a) descending anterior branch descending aorta descending aorta descending artery of knee descending branch descending branch of hypoglossal nerve descending branch of lateral circumflex femoral artery

Literary usage of Descendent

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1. The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland: A Genealogical by Joshua Dorsey Warfield (1905)
"... The only male descendent in Maryland is Mr. Stephen G. Hood, of Lisbon, the genial representative of the order of Odd Fellows. ..."

2. The historical antiquities of Hertfordshire: With the Original of Counties by Sir Henry Chauncy (1826)
"Francis Seymour, the next descendent from Sir Francis Seymour, Kt. the third Son of Edward ... descendent ..."

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