Descendant and Native

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Descendant noun - A person considered as descended from some ancestor or race.

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Native and descendant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Native" instead a noun "Descendant".

Nearby Words: descend, descent, descending, descender, descendance

Native noun - A usually longtime resident of a locality.

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Descendant and native are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Descendant" instead a noun "Native".

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

female	female descendant	female native
future	future descendant	future native
true	true descendant	true native
single	single descendant	single native
Other adjectives: intelligent, actual, real, male, living, young, last, surviving, giant, Martian.

He's not only of mixed Japanese and Latino descent, but Native American and African-American (he's a descendant of Luke Cage) as well.

Source: Multi-Ethnic Name
His distant descendant Jean-Luc Picard would consequently have trouble gaining the trust of a Native American leader who happened to recognize the name "Picard".

Source: Grand Unified Timeline / The Renaissance
Using the Chaos Emeralds, Sonic scouts ahead as Super Sonic, but almost immediately gets a face full of fist, courtesy of the island's native inhabitant: Knuckles, the only living descendant of the echidna civilization whose sworn duty is to guard the Emeralds.

Source: Video Game / Sonic 3 & Knuckles aka: Sonic The Hedgehog 3

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