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Descending; going down. quotations examples
Eagle descendant, or descending. See DESCENDANT, and Pl. 22, fig. 6. Eagle descendant, displayed. See Pl. 22, fig. 7. Eagle displayed, recursant. See DISPLAYED RECURSANT, and Pl. 22, […]
1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 14
Azure, surmounting a cloud argent, an American eagle descendant, wings endorsed proper, between his beak four lightning streaks, […]
1984, Charles A. Ravenstein, Air Force combat wings: lineage and honors histories 1947-1977, DIANE Publishing, page 259
Descending from a biological ancestor. examples
Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source. examples
plural descendants
One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations. examples
(figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source. examples
(biology) A later evolutionary type.
(linguistics) A language that is descended from another. examples
(linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language. quotations examples
The direct descendant of this form is the Slavic aorist: Sb.-Cr. nȍsī, dȍnosī.
1993, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “The Slavic i-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-European ē-verbs”, in Bela Brogyanyi, Reiner Lipp, editors, Comparative-Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing, page 479