: to resemble (someone) in features, build, character, or disposition
a daughter who takes after her mother
"That's Tulliver's son," said the publican to a grocer standing on the adjacent door-step. "Ah!" said the grocer, "I thought I knew his features. He takes after his mother's family." George Eliot
"His father was lazy but his mother hasn't a lazy bone in her body, and Peter takes after her." Lucy Maud Montgomery