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Definition of "descendents" [descendents]

  • Common misspelling of descendants. (noun)

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Use "descendents" in a sentence
  • "My students 'own expertise as "consumers" of popular culture contributes to my own understanding, and the work on popular culture some of them do in their own papers gives them an enhanced critical ability and a new tool with which to examine both nineteenth-century texts and their descendents from a complex critical perspective."
  • "All cells in our body are descendents from the fertilized egg cell."
  • "But still we come to a country which is only black in the tropical or equatorial part, and which is a white country, andexcept to the extent of the descendents from the Portuguese and some Spaniards-is a comparatively recently settled white country, with a freedom from black or inferior races to a greater degree than we are apt to think."