Definición de descendant en inglés:

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Pronunciación: /dɪˈsɛnd(ə)nt/


1A person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor: she’s a descendant of Charles Darwin
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successor, scion;
offshoot, heir;
(descendants) offspring, progeny, issue, family, lineage, line
archaic posterity, seed, fruit, fruit of someone's loins
1.1A machine, artefact, system, etc., that has developed from an earlier, more rudimentary version: house music is a descendant of disco
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The correct spelling for the noun meaning ‘person descended from a particular ancestor’ is descendant, not -ent. Descendent is a less common adjective meaning ‘descending from an ancestor’. Almost 15 per cent of the citations for the term in the Oxford English Corpus use the wrong spelling.



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