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

For example, members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, based at the Fort Hall Reservation near Pocatello, are descended from some of the same tribes as the Sho-Pai, which is why both share the name Shoshone, a tribe that has long lived in the Great Basin and other parts of the Mountain West. —Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 19 Aug. 2025

It is said that today more than 75 percent of all the Chardonnay in the United States is Wente Clone stock descended from those plantings. —Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025

Fans watched in horror as his limp body descended from the rafters. —Frederick Dreier, Outside, 7 Aug. 2025

Katie Lee Biegel grew up in Milton, West Virginia, descended from a long line of women who really knew how to cook. —Sid Evans, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for descend from

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