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

Although closely related to the modern lion, the American lion was a distinct evolutionary lineage descended from ancestors that crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Asia into North America during the Pleistocene, roughly 340,000 years ago. —Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

Sami herders are descended from a once-nomadic people scattered across a region spanning the far north of Sweden, Norway, Finland and the northwestern corner of Russia. —Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025

The analyses also found that modern rodents descend from a common ancestor thousands of years ago that had thumbnails. —Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025

OnTheRunPhoto/Getty What To Know NWS meteorologist Mark Steinwedel told Newsweek that tumultuous lake conditions can occur behind cold fronts descending from Canada. —Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for descend from

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