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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Saif Ali Khan is descended from a family of former Nawabs who ruled the small princely state of Pataudi, close to Delhi. Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025 Cooler Pacific winds in the area earlier today blew inland from the south-southwest, giving firefighters temporary respite from warm, dry offshore winds that move from north to south and heat up air molecules under pressure as gusts descend from the mountains toward the sea. Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2025 Every year, thousands upon thousands of optimistic individuals gaze wistfully at the confetti descending from the ceiling, visualizing a new and improved version of themselves come New Year’s Day. Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2025 On the evolutionary front, a paper in Nature finds that the genetic control circuits that shape mammalian external ears may have descended from similar circuits in fish gills. Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for descend from 

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“Descend from.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/descend%20from. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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