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

Celebrating the intersection of family histories with American history is at the heart of organizations like Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), a male lineage society with nearly 40,000 members descended from patriots of the American Revolution. —Matt Alderton, USA Today, 22 June 2026

Unknown is whether the current Flora Macdonald Johnston is descended from her ferociously patriotic namesake – pictured above is the 1749 Allan Ramsay portrait of the noble Scotswoman that hangs in Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. —Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026

The sanctuary, located near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, cares for a colony of African vervet monkeys descended from animals linked to a roadside zoo and research facility that operated decades ago. —Joan Murray, CBS News, 21 June 2026

Local settler Lewis Moulton, for whom the museum is named, was descended from two Massachusetts great-grandfathers who were early patriots in the Revolutionary War. —Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 21 June 2026

Rhymes for descend from

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