descend from

phrasal verb

descended from; descending from; descends from

: to have (something or someone in the past) as an origin or source

Recent evidence supports the theory that birds descended from dinosaurs.

The plants descend from a common ancestor.

They claim to be descended from a noble British family.

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They were primarily descended from a group of eastern Mediterranean immigrants. —

Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024 Toyota and Honda have at times been called boring: Honda by its own engineers, Toyota more famously by a chairman descended from the company’s founder. —

Robert Ferris, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024 Since then, core inflation in the consumer price index (CPI) has descended from a 3.4-percent annual increase to a 3.2-percent annual increase. —

Tobias Burns, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024 The 20 who plunged into the murky Duplin River had traveled to Sapelo Island last weekend to celebrate the Gullah Geechee people, a community with a unique blend of African culture and American life, descended from Africans who were enslaved on coastal plantations in the South. —

Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for descend from