"The descendants of George Washington were very ________" "She didn't have any descendants." "The throne would go to the descendants of the king." Descendants are a person's children, grandchildren, and everyone after that related to them.
Development of descendent proceeds farther than that of the ancestor so that earlier stages of the descendent resemble ancestral adults.
Width
The sun
The direct descendents of a person are that person's children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. The direct descendents can trace their ancestry directly back to the person. For example, you are your great-great-grandmother's direct descendent, but you are not the direct descendent of your great-great-grandmother's sister.
Syphillis
Allegedly he was a distant descendent.
The Umayyads
The three toed sloth
Scion, heir, child, progeny.
Elijah and
Labor Unions
descendent of Ruadhan