descent




descent - noun

  • a movement downward
  • properties attributable to your ancestry
  • the act of changing your location in a downward direction
  • the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
  • a downward slope or bend
  • the descendants of one individual
  • descent - thesaurus

    ancestry   blood   bloodline   declension   declination   decline   declivity   downslope   extraction   fall   filiation   line   lineage   origin   parentage   pedigree   stemma   stock