a person’s descendants are their children, their children’s children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them 后裔；后代；子孙 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。 Many of them are descendants of the original settlers. 他们中许多人都是早期移民的后裔。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- direct
- lineal
- immediate
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something that has developed from something similar in the past （由过去类似物发展来的）派生物 Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language 克丘亚语 － 印加语的直系派生语言
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- direct
- lineal
- immediate
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Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘descending’): from French, present participle of descendre ‘to descend’, from Latin descendere, from de- ‘down’ + scandere ‘to climb’. The noun dates from the early 17th cent.