descendant

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a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild:

He has no descendants.

descendant of They claim to be descendants of a French duke.

We owe it to our descendants (= people younger than us who will live after we have died) to leave them a clean world to live in.

an animal that lives after and is related to another animal that lived in the past:

descendant of Lemurs are descendants of the earliest primates.

something that is similar to and influenced by something that existed before it:

descendant of Freeride skiing is a hybrid, trick-oriented descendant of skateboarding and snowboarding.

The file-sharing service and its descendants allowed users to download music for free.

a person related to someone from an earlier generation (= all the people of about the same age within a particular family):

The Pennsylvania Dutch are descendants of early German immigrants.