1. descendant - Noun
2. descendant - Adjective
3. descendant - Adjective Satellite
Descendent.
One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
Source: Webster's dictionaryVulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. Edith Sitwell
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. Herbert Spencer
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind. Julian Jaynes
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. Stephen Jay Gould
The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant. Nikos Kazantzakis
John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy. Howard Dean