direct descendant

collocation in English

meaningsofdirectanddescendant

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direct
adjective
uk
/daɪˈrekt/us
/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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descendant
noun[C]
uk
/dɪˈsen.dənt/us
/dɪˈsen.dənt/
a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child ...
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(Definition ofdirectanddescendantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We are left in no doubt that we are dealing with adirectdescendantof the animal whose special gift was the multiplication of words.
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Recognizing and acknowledging the role of the actor as adirectdescendantfrom the role of the shaman is part of utilizing the possibilities of that collective future.
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He was adirectdescendantof the original purchaser and moved in with his family in 1981.
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By luck adirectdescendantof the original occupants heard about the project.
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He's adirectdescendantof a chaotic bloodline.
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Then he would go on showing how his line, and particularly he, was thedirectdescendantof the original settler.
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By preference, the successor is adirectdescendantof the previous powers mortal form, but anyone of noble blood will suffice.
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It is ruled by an ekrekek (emperor) instead of a king; he is seen as adirectdescendantof the stars and is the person with whom the stars commune.
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There are three separate corporate entities that could be considered successors to the company, none of which represent a complete anddirectdescendantof the original company.
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Daniel was adirectdescendantof this branch of the family.
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Frugis adoptive father was the last knowndirectdescendantof the triumvir and the last knowndirectdescendantof the triumvir who bore his name.
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He believes kwaito and hip hop to have many similarities due to both genre's origins, however he does not believe kwaito to be adirectdescendantof hip hop.
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Research into common patronymics for women is, therefore, less efficient because it fails to identify all of the descending generations, and even direct descendants.
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So we would not necessarily expect modern amphibians to be infested with the direct descendants of the ticks that infested labyrinthodont amphibians.
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Despite the invisibility of the houses themselves, many of the evictees' direct descendants are known, have found one another and have created a network of interaction and comradeship.
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Twelve genera belonging to the hammatoceratins and to their direct descendants were selected as key genera.
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Some of the tenants are the direct descendants of the original leaseholders, but many are not.
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There is a chief with 43 direct descendants—most of them are his own sons—who is now cultivating about 80 acres of land.
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The wording of the amendment limits the disclosure of information to the child itself and its direct descendants.
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