transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪsendənt ]
( descendants)
1.
Someone’s descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers.
≠ ancestor
N-COUNT : usu pl , usu with poss
2.
Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called a descendant of it.
His design was a descendant of a 1956 device...
≠ ancestor
N-COUNT : usu N of n