单词	progenitor
释义	progenitorpro‧gen‧i‧tor /prəʊˈdʒenɪtə $ proʊˈdʒenɪtər/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINprogenitor Origin: 1300-1400 Latin progignere ‘to produce young’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Actually, scientists say that cloned animals will not be exact replicas of their progenitors. Binet is considered the progenitor of intelligence testing. But he carved his place in Sooner lore and will go down as the progenitor of the Oklahoma program's rebirth. Despite the changing modes of life, they are attentive to the paradoxical utterances of their progenitor. Pure Przewalski's horses, genetically the closest to the wild progenitors of domestic breeds, are all in zoos. Thatcher was merely the midwife for Essex man: the progenitor was Tony Benn. They are derivative of the culture, not the progenitors of it. They became yet more complex, true progenitors of real plants and animals. 1formal someone who first thought of an ideaprogenitor of a progenitor of cubism2 technical a person or animal that lived in the past, to whom someone or something living now is related SYN  ancestor
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