Usually means: Offspring derived from a common ancestor.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word descendant:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. descendant: Merriam-Webster
  2. descendant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. descendant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. descendant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. descendant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Descendant, descendant: Wordnik
  7. descendant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. descendant: Wiktionary
  9. descendant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. descendant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. descendant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. descendant: Dictionary.com
  13. descendant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Descendant (astrology), Descendant (disambiguation), Descendant, The Descendant (short story), The Descendant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Descendant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. descendant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. descendant: Rhymezone
  18. descendant, descendant(e) (m/f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. descendant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. descendant: FreeDictionary.org
  21. descendant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. descendant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. descendant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. descendant: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. descendant: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. descendant: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. descendant: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. descendant: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DESCENDANT, DESCENDANT, DESCENDANT: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. descendant: Genealogy Glossary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dinosaurs (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. descendant, descendant: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Descendant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Descending; going down.
adjective:  Descending from a biological ancestor.
adjective:  Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.
noun:  One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
noun:  (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
noun:  (biology) A later evolutionary type.
noun:  (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
noun:  (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
noun:  (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.

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