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descendant

noun as in person in line of ancestry

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The burned-out residence, described by a real estate listing service as an 825-square-foot, two-bedroom property worth about $1 million, seemingly had little of the opulence befitting a descendant of the world’s most powerful bankers.

The ancient Ndebele interacted with the nomadic San, whose descendants still live in some parts of Zimbabwe and in South Africa.

She was mesmerized by the smooth-talking Sonny, who raffishly claimed to be a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.

From Salon

The latter is available to people who are passing on a main residence to a direct descendant, such as children or grandchildren, as part of their estate.

From BBC

Today, their descendants are threatened by a different land-based mammal that has also returned to the sea: humans.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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