descend from

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 route to an Italian passport tends to be far more onerous for those descended from women than from men. — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026

Afrikaner farmers are descended from Dutch and other European colonial settlers who first came to the country more than 300 years ago. — ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

The event celebrates a ginkgo tree that is descended from a mother tree that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima more than 80 years ago. — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2026

Across the planet, most populations of monarch butterflies—in Spain, in Hawaii—are likely descended from vagrants that veered off the Mexico migration path. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

Rhymes for descend from

• callosum
• nodosum
• overcome
• pyrethrum
• saccharum
• abomasum
• become
• checksum
• humdrum
• income
• outcome
• pisum