Descendant synonyms
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A shoot or bud of a plant, esp. one for planting or grafting
A secondary product; something made incidentally during the production of something else.
kin (related)
One's relatives or family:
Ancestors considered as a group.
In generative linguistics, the generation of a linguistic structure through an ordered or partially ordered series of operations on other structures, such as the creation of a surface structure from a deep structure, or of a complex word from its morphological components.
Derivative means something that is based on another source.
A person's descendants considered as a group.
ancestor (antonym)
Any person from whom one is descended, esp. one earlier in a family line than a grandparent; forefather; forebear
Something that branches out or derives its existence or origin from a particular source.
That which grows out; offshoot
Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
Secondary; subordinate; supplemental. Property, including accounts, contract rights, and chattel paper, that is subjected to a security interest in exchange for credit or as security for a debt. Indirect; on a parallel or diverging line.
declinatory
Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
Fairly steep
(Family) Of a family relationship that includes mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters, and sons, etc. as opposed to collateral.
matrilineal
Designating or of descent, kinship, or derivation through the mother
matrilinear
patrilineal
Pertaining to descent through male lines.
patrilinear
phyletic
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to a phylum or to an evolutionary line of descent
Preparation, especially publicity, done prior to the appearance of a public figure or the staging of a public event.
apparentation
cion
The definition of a cion, an alternative spelling of scion, is the bud of a plant.
(Grammar): A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
A deviation, as from a specific direction or standard.
The process or result of declining, especially:
The definition of genealogy is the study of your ancestry and family history.
A person who inherits or is legally entitled to inherit, through the natural action of the law, another's property or title upon the other's death
A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
The act of something being lowered.
Origin is the start, center or beginning of something or the place where a person comes from.
The background or origin of a person or thing, esp. as a mark of prestige or distinction
A major category in the classification of living organisms, esp. animals, ranking above a class and below a kingdom: it can include one class or many similar classes: the Latinized phylum names are capitalized but not italicized (Ex.: Arthropoda, arthropods)
Future generations:
Any act or instance of entering to remove or capture something
Family stock; ancestry.
In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
predecessor (antonym)
Something that has been succeeded by another:
descendent (related)
Descending from (an ancest)
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