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de·scent

n 1  :  the act or process of descending from a higher to a lower location < of the testes into the scrotum>   2 a  :  derivation from an ancestor  b  :  the fact or process of originating by generation from an ancestral stock (as a species or genus)  3  :  a former method of distillation in which the material was heated in a vessel having its outlet underneath so that the vapors produced were forced to descend .
 
 
 
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