Another word for descendant | Synonyms for descendant

Another word for descendant

noun

Something derived from another:
byproduct, derivation, derivative, offshoot, outgrowth, spinoff. See kin
One descended directly from the same parents or ancestors:
child, offspring, progeny, scion. See kin

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It's a descendant of the Mexican earless goat.
His mother was a descendant of the celebrated John Cotton.
He was a descendant of Thomas Webster, of Scottish ancestry, who settled in New Hampshire about 1636.
His descendant, Sir Robert Spencer, the 1st baron, was in 1603, "reputed to have by him the most money of any person in the kingdom."
Judas had won for them religious freedom: but the Temple required a descendant of Aaron for priest and he was come.

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