Descendants
Descendants noun - All of the offspring of a given progenitor.
Relatives and descendants are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Relatives" instead a noun "Descendants".
Relatives
Descendants and relatives are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Descendants" instead a noun "Relatives".
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Living Forever Is No Big Deal: This seems to be Conrad's approach to live as he's never known any other, and he even seems to have no issue with his relatives and descendants dying before him.
Source: Literature / This Immortal -
A subversion: Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA and its relatives and descendants (with names like Parry, SHRDLU, and Emacs doctor) all do reasonably creditable jobs of carrying on a conversation, despite having no actual intelligence to speak of.
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Finding intact records (much less their grave sites) would be nothing short of a miracle.note One of the novels does explore this, with Buck visiting the ruins of Salt Lake City to see if the Mormon genealogical records contain any information about surviving relatives and descendants.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Live-Action TV
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