One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
A later evolutionary type.
Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
A language that is descended from another.
English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.