descendant
noun [ C ] uk/dɪˈsen.dənt/ us/dɪˈsen.dənt/
C2 子孙，后代
a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild
He has no descendants. 他没有后代。
They claim to be descendants of a French duke. 他们自称是一位法国公爵的后代。
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. 给子孙后代留下一个清洁的生活环境是我们的职责。
Compare: ancestor
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- Most of these people are refugees or the descendants of refugees.
- Surely our descendants will wonder why we didn't notice, why we did nothing about greenhouse gases.
- These wild horses are the living descendants of untold generations of Ozarks history.
- He hopes descendants of these monkeys will spread beyond the reserve to repopulate nearby mountains.
- What makes these mutations particularly dangerous is that they are passed down from a cell to all its descendants.
- This celebrated Coen brothers debut is a worthy descendant of classic 1940s film noir.