descendant

后裔、子孙、后代

Many of his descendants still live in that small fishing village.

他的许多后裔至今仍住在那个小渔村。

衍生物、后继者比喻

Italian and Spanish are both descendants of Latin.

义大利文和西班牙文都是拉丁文的衍生语言。

传下的、世袭的正式

The descendant line of the family kept the old title.

这个家族的传承一脉保有那个古老的头衔。

下降的、向下的罕用

The engineer measured the descendant slope of the tunnel.

工程师测量了隧道向下倾斜的坡度。