progenitress
/prə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪtrɪs
/noun rare
A female progenitor.She was a worthy progenitress of a long line of most charming women novelists....
- By ones, twos, and threes her descendants came to mourn over their progenitress.
- The women of any clan are the progenitresses, the foremothers who should be honored along with the sires.
- shuriken
- shush
- shu-shu
- Shuswap
- shut
- shutdown
- shut down (or shut something down)
- Shute, Nevil
- shut-eye
- shut-in
- shut-off
- shut off (or shut something off)
- shut oneself off
- shut one's eyes to
- shut one's mind to
- shut (or bolt) the stable door after the horse has bolted
- shutout
- shut-out bid
- shut someone/thing away
- shut someone/thing in
- shut someone/thing out
- shut something up
- shutter
- shutterbug
- shuttered