English-Spanish translations for descendant

• descendiente
  Lo que nosotros, sus descendientes, debemos hacer es recordar y aprender. This is exactly what we, their descendants, have to do: remember and learn.
  Algunos de ellos todavía están vivos, mientras que el número de sus descendientes es de casi 800 000. Some of them are still alive, while their descendants number almost 800 000.
  Si queremos que nuestros descendientes sepan a qué sabe el pescado, es indispensable imponer controles. If we want our descendants to know the taste of fish, controls are essential.
• hija
• hijo
  Ahora bien, este conflicto es un hijo lejano de los conflictos europeos de 1914-1918 y 1939-1945, y nosotros no hacemos lo necesario, caemos en el fariseísmo. The fact is, this conflict is the descendant of the European conflicts of 1914-1918 and 1939-45, and we are not doing what we should be doing, we are indulging in Pharisaism.

Definition of descendant

• descending from a biological ancestor
• One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations
• A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source
• A later evolutionary type
• A language that is descended from another
• A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language

Examples

• The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
• This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
• Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
• English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.

Related words

• Afrodescendant
• descendantless
• Afro-descendant