progenitor
noun
Origin of progenitor
Related Words for progenitor
predecessor, ancestor, parent, precursor, begetter, primogenitor, originator, forefather, founder, sireExamples from the Web for progenitor
Contemporary Examples of progenitor
That extra spin in the progenitor star might have been enough to give the neutron star more magnetic power, making it a magnetar.
So the name is appropriate if this machine is the progenitor of a robot race that will one day go to war.
FYMW is, in some ways, the progenitor of menswear on Tumblr.
Stylistically it is a progenitor of Invisible Man, which Ellison described as “realism that goes beyond and becomes surrealism.”
He is a progenitor of what could be called the degenerate school of American fiction.
Historical Examples of progenitor
The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him.
The Devil's DictionaryAmbrose Bierce
From every grave where a progenitor slept, he had heard a parent's voice.
The Caxtons, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
It was the progenitor and type of all later non-rigid dirigibles.
The War in the Air; Vol. 1Walter Raleigh.
No scholar has ever pretended that Canaan was the progenitor of the negro race.
The Slavery QuestionJohn Lawrence
His brother William was the progenitor of the Murrays of Abercairnie.
Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie, Vol. I (of II)John D. Carrick