Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun all of the offspring of a given progenitor.
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- noun Plural form of
descendant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun all of the offspring of a given progenitor
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Examples
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One of the descendants is an investment counselor and another a Ph.D. Mrs. [Megan] Smolenyak Smolenyak described them as “poster children” for immigrant America, with Irish, Jewish, Italian and Scandinavian surnames.
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But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one to boot.
Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ? Laban 2006
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Even so, I choose to spend my food money so that my long-term health, and that of my descendants, is not compromised.
Making Links 2009
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A characteristic that occurs only in later descendants is called an apomorphy (meaning "separate form" or "far from form," as in far from the root ancestor; also called a "derived" state) for that group.
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Even so, I choose to spend my food money so that my long-term health, and that of my descendants, is not compromised.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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What we can do for our descendants is promote, or at least avoid retarding, economic growth.
Natural Disasters 2008
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Darwin descendants are still there (through the Keynes), and the institute still supports the notorious Pioneer Fund directly.
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Linguistic evidence that these diverse communities intermingled to some extent with these PNECB descendants is found in their modern language descendants 'lexis. 10
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At least the phony, bait & switch concern for starving artists and their descendants is well grounded in history.
Matthew Yglesias » Jukeboxes are Killing The Recording Industry 2007
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The first white man to see Lake Victoria, John Hanning Speke, claimed the two tribes in the Rwanda region were direct descendants from the Bible.
Archive 2006-11-01 ____Maggie 2006
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