descendant
definition
a person directly related to someone from a past generation
example
Amelia started exploring her family line and discovered she was the descendant of Irish immigrants who had come to the country in the 19th century.
synonyms
offspringblood relative
word origin — late Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘deriving from an ancestor’): partly from French, present participle of descendre ‘to descend’ and partly from Latin, present participle of descendere ‘to descend’ (see descend). The noun dates from the mid 16th century