descendent

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Not just focused on entertainment, the organization will also be awarding two scholarships for Mexican descendent first year, first-generation students — one for college and one for trade school.

From Seattle Times

Lists of the world's wealthiest individuals are always heavily populated by heirs, ranging from descendents of old money to scions of more recently minted fortunes.

From Salon

The variety roaming California’s golden hills is largely the blended descendent of pigs that Spanish missionaries imported in the 1700s and the wild boar a Carmel-by-the-Sea bon vivant, George Gordon Moore, introduced in the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times

Scientists worry that a contagious descendent of Omicron may soon drive COVID-19 cases up in the United States just as it has in Europe and Asia.

From Los Angeles Times

Scientists think the ancient mammal was a basilosaurus, part of the aquatic cetacean family, whose contemporary descendents include whales, dolphins and porpoises.

From Reuters