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descendant noun

  /dɪˈsendənt/ , /dɪˈsɛndənt/
  • One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
  • (biology) A later evolutionary type.
jälkeläinen
  • (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
seuraaja

descend verb

  /di-/ , /dəˈsɛnd/ , /dɪˈsɛnd/
  • (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
laskeutua, laskea, alentua, pienetä, pudota
  • (transitive) To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
laskeutua, laskea, kulkea, periytyä
  • (reflexive) To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.
alentua, langeta, laskea, laskeutua, periytyä, pienetä
  • (intransitive) Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child.
kulkea, periytyä
  • Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience.
langeta
  • (transitive) Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.).
  • (transitive, archaic) To move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position; to bring or send (someone or something) down.
laskea
  • (astrology) Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance.
laskea, laskeutua
  • (astronomy) Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south.
  • (biology, physiology) Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum.
  • Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
laskeutua
  • In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered.
mennä yksityiskohtiin
  • (intransitive, chiefly, law) Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance.
periytyä
  • (intransitive, often, passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.
periytyä, polveutua
  • (reflexive, chiefly, poetic, or, religion) Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire.
vajota

descender noun

  /dɪˈsɛndə(ɹ)/
  • (typography) The part of a letter or number that is drawn below the baseline (the bottom of most lowercase letters).
  • (typography, uncommon) A letter that has such a portion, such as g, j, or in some fonts Q.
alapidennys

descending adjective

  /dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ/
  • (computing) Causing a sequence to follow a descending order.
  • Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element. (of a sequence)
laskeva
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