descendant

1. One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.

   Meronyms: issue, line, progeny; family; clan

   The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.

   Nachkomme, Nachkommin, Deszendent

   пото́мокpotómok

   наща́докnaščádok, пото́мокpotómok

2. (figuratively)A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.

   This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.

   Ableger, Abschrift

3. A later evolutionary type.

   Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.

   Abkömmling

   пото́мокpotómok

   наща́докnaščádok

4. A language that is descended from another.

   English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.

   a person considered as descended from some ancestor

5. A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.

6. The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.

1. What will our descendants be like?

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2. He has no descendants, he's likely sterile.

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3. She was the youngest descendant of the king.

   ruОна была самой младшей из потомков короля.

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4. Dogs are believed to be descendants of wolves.

   ruСчитается, что собаки - это потомки волков.

   deDer Hund stamme, so glaubt man, vom Wolfe ab.

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5. The settlers were descendants of the surviving crew.

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