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

The gag this year was that a thunder goddess would actually appear: an enormous golden mask with big, blinking blue eyes descending from the ceiling. —Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025

Finding Your Roots has also uncovered that Shonda Rhimes, Joe Manganiello, and Maya Rudolph are descended from people who were enslaved prior to the American Civil War. —Shania Russell, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025

All insects descend from a common ancestor that lived about about 480 million years ago. —Nicholas Green, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2025

President Jackson is also known for descending from a terrace at the White House in mid-speech to beat a heckler with his hickory stick. —Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for descend from

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