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.

Examples of descend from in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

According to Bed Bug Biology and Behavior, the bed bugs wriggling under hotel sheets the world over right now descend from cave-dwelling insects that originally drank bat blood. —Katie Nixon, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Sep. 2025

The women descend from the summit to the start of the North Ridge trail cornice 20 minutes later. —Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025

Then robot-like enemies appear, followed by new villains who descend from a spaceship and trap the heroes in beams of light. —G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

While some believe these local icons descend from survivors of a Spanish shipwreck 500 years ago, they were more likely brought here by 17th-century farmers hoping to skirt fencing and taxation laws. —Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for descend from

• nodosum
• overcome
• pyrethrum
• saccharum
• abomasum
• become
• checksum
• humdrum
• income
• outcome
• succumb
• therefrom