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

Dogs are believed to descend from ancient gray wolves, though the exact wolf populations that gave rise to them remain debated. —Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025

So why has Priestly chosen to descend from her ivory tower at Elias Clarke Publications’s Manhattan HQ and rejoin fashion’s front line? —Luke Leitch, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2025

Their memories and ways of being will be descended from our own, as surely as if they had been gestated in a human womb and raised by a human family, which will be the reality of their own creation stories and myths. —Rick Tumlinson, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025

Most Americans descend from those with humble beginnings; standing in our kitchens, hallways, and stoops, visitors often imagine their ancestors in these spaces. —Annie Polland, Time, 25 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for descend from

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