英语词汇“progenitor”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

progenitor

/prə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪtə

noun

1A person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent: his children were the progenitors of many of Scotland’s noble families...

Boxes represent extant groups and their ancestral progenitors.
For example, the unicellular progenitors of plants underwent an important evolutionary step following the establishment of a second endosymbiotic relationship, resulting in the evolution of the plastid.
The domestication of plants from their wild progenitors has led to the production of a wide variety of crops that share a number of traits.

Synonyms

ancestor, forefather, forebear, parent

archaic begetter

rare primogenitor, procreator, stirps

1.1A person who originates a cultural or intellectual movement: the progenitor of modern jazz...

Both international law and domestic legal norms in the Christian world had roots in an accepted morality and in natural law, and had common intellectual progenitors (including Grotius, Locke, Vattel).
Instead, she bestows a life and a self on modernity that seems to be independent of politics or its intellectual progenitors, and can therefore be whatever the author wants.
The record, and the subsequent Live Aid concerts, yoked the two men together as blood-oath crusaders against the famine in Ethiopia, the progenitors of popular culture's most decisive intervention into global politics.

Synonyms

originator, founder, instigator, source;

forerunner, predecessor, precursor, antecedent

Derivatives

progenitorial

/prə(ʊ)dʒɛnɪˈtɔːrɪəl/ adjective

progenitorship

noun

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French progeniteur, from Latin progenitor, from progenit- 'begotten', from the verb progignere, from pro- 'forward' + gignere 'beget'.

单词	progenitor
释义	progenitor /prə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪtə / noun 1A person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent: his children were the progenitors of many of Scotland’s noble families... Boxes represent extant groups and their ancestral progenitors. For example, the unicellular progenitors of plants underwent an important evolutionary step following the establishment of a second endosymbiotic relationship, resulting in the evolution of the plastid. The domestication of plants from their wild progenitors has led to the production of a wide variety of crops that share a number of traits. Synonyms ancestor, forefather, forebear, parent archaic begetter rare primogenitor, procreator, stirps 1.1A person who originates a cultural or intellectual movement: the progenitor of modern jazz... Both international law and domestic legal norms in the Christian world had roots in an accepted morality and in natural law, and had common intellectual progenitors (including Grotius, Locke, Vattel). Instead, she bestows a life and a self on modernity that seems to be independent of politics or its intellectual progenitors, and can therefore be whatever the author wants. The record, and the subsequent Live Aid concerts, yoked the two men together as blood-oath crusaders against the famine in Ethiopia, the progenitors of popular culture's most decisive intervention into global politics. Synonyms originator, founder, instigator, source; forerunner, predecessor, precursor, antecedent Derivatives progenitorial /prə(ʊ)dʒɛnɪˈtɔːrɪəl/ adjective progenitorship noun Origin Late Middle English: from Old French progeniteur, from Latin progenitor, from progenit- 'begotten', from the verb progignere, from pro- 'forward' + gignere 'beget'. Rhymes primogenitor, senator
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progenitor

Derivatives

progenitorial

progenitorship

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