单词 | descendant |
释义 | descendant (dɪsendənt ) Word forms: descendants 1. countable noun [usually plural, usually with poss] Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them. They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers. [+ of] ...Lord Cochrane and his descendants. Synonyms: successor, child, issue, son 2. countable noun Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called a descendant of it. His design was a descendant of a 1956 device. [+ of] They are the descendants of plants imported by the early settlers. Collocations: descendants of immigrants He will chat to experts and descendants of immigrants along the way. The Sun Practitioners of these religious groups are predominantly immigrants, descendants of immigrants, or recent converts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After some generations, the descendants of immigrants were integrated in the local society, even though their cultural influences are still strong, mostly in the countryside. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Only a 'direct descendant' can benefit from the extra allowance. Times, Sunday Times An individual can leave up to 325,000 of assets tax-free, or up to 450,000 if passing on their main home to a direct descendant. Times, Sunday Times Its direct descendant also happens to be yesterday's shambles, in which the government watered down its price-cap manifesto promise and deliver cheaper energy for the few, not the many. Times, Sunday Times He was a direct descendant of the original purchaser and moved in with his family in 1981. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Then he would go on showing how his line, and particularly he, was the direct descendant of the original settler. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Palaeontologists now think dinosaurs were more like birds than we thought, with chickens their nearest living descendants. Times, Sunday Times The groups also roughly correspond to time periods, although most if not all of these groups still have living descendants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was a large species with distinctive features suggesting that it represents an extinct lineage with no living descendants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They believed they could combine and rearrange the genetic material from these living descendants into a recreation of the extinct horse. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He sired a total of 2,250 foals, and as of 2003, was estimated to have in excess of 55,000 living descendants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 后代 Japanese: 子孫 |
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