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Noun: descendant  di'sen-dunt
  1. A person considered as descended from some ancestor
    "She is a direct descendant of the country's first president"
     
  2. Something that develops or derives from an earlier form
    "Jazz is a descendant of African rhythms and European harmonies"

Sounds like: depravation, deprivationt, descenden

Derived forms: descendants

Type of: flesh and blood, relation, relative

Antonym: ancestor

Encyclopedia: Descendant