progenitor
noun
a biologically related ancestor.
progenitors
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pluralof progenitor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Those animals were the progenitors of the vast Native American pony herds of later centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Its progenitors - who now can generate videos of literally anything in just a few minutes - have the potential to disrupt the lucrative influencer economy.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
Furthermore, the Midwest broadly has a history of engineering new music to dance to, as queer Black men in Detroit are often uncredited as the progenitors of techno as we understand it today.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
Meanwhile, when exposed to G-CSF, long bones rapidly increased formation of granulocyte progenitors and mature neutrophils.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
Many of these late-stage fruit trees posed a further problem in that their wild progenitors were the opposite of self-pollinating.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
