all of the offspring of a given progenitor.

progeny, offspring.

From XML Path Language (XPath) ( 1999-11-16) The descendants of a node are the children of the node and the descendants of the children of the node.

All of the children of a sheet or an output record, and all of their descendants, recursively.

A person's children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren and so on.

Descendants of a library unit relation are the inverse of the ancestor relation.

Those who descend form someone.

The lineal descendants of an individual include those who are born or adopted by the decedent.