descendant
/dɪˈsendənt/📚 6224 165 1六级考研托福Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them. 后代
noun [集合/集体]后裔，子孙；派生物，衍生物
Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called a descendant of it.
衍生物 They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers. 他们是最初的英格兰和苏格兰移民的后裔。
adjective [原级]下降的；祖传的
These adaptations served their descendant well as they invaded land.
这些适应机制在它们的后代进化成陆生生物时起了很好的协助作用。
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- Lesson 16 The modern city descendant 名词: 子孙，后代
descend(下来， 下降) ＋ ant(表人) → 下一代 → 后代， 后裔
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- They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers. 他们是最初的英格兰和苏格兰移民的后裔。
- His design was a descendant of a 1956 device. 他的设计是1956年一个装置的衍生物。
- This method tells you all information you need to know: whether one node is descendant of an ancestor of the other, whether it is before or after, and so on. 这个方法告诉您所有想知道的信息：一个节点是否是另一个节点的祖先的后代，它是在前面还是后面呢，等等。
- He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland. 他属于奥康纳家族，是爱尔兰最后一位君王的嫡系后裔。