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

Heinrich Himmler and other Third Reich occultists in the 1930s latched onto the strange idea that the Aryan race was not the product of evolution but descended from semidivine beings who left the heavens and established a secret civilization on Earth, possibly beneath Central Asia. —Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

Her words then triggered a propr with four wine glasses to descend from the ceiling, just as a crew member dropped off a bottle of rose from Gifford's own brand, GIFFT. —Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026

That new air, from an air mass that descended from the north, has been bolstered by increasing high pressure. —Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026

The few visible trails had been kept open by the passage of wild donkeys descended from colonial-era pack animals. —Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for descend from

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