Definitions for progenitor

progenitor pro·gen·i·tor

Spelling: [proh-jen-i-ter]
IPA: /proʊˈdʒɛn ɪ tər/

Progenitor is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 484 anagrams from letters in progenitor (eginooprrt).

Definitions for progenitor

noun

  1. a biologically related ancestor:
  2. a person or thing that first indicates a direction, originates something, or serves as a model; predecessor; precursor:

Origin of progenitor

1350-1400; Middle English Latin prōgenitor the founder of a family. See pro-1, genitor

Examples for progenitor

That extra spin in the progenitor star might have been enough to give the neutron star more magnetic power, making it a magnetar.

He is a progenitor of what could be called the degenerate school of American fiction.

From every grave where a progenitor slept, he had heard a parent's voice.

FYMW is, in some ways, the progenitor of menswear on Tumblr.

His brother William was the progenitor of the Murrays of Abercairnie.

No scholar has ever pretended that Canaan was the progenitor of the negro race.

The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him.

Stylistically it is a progenitor of Invisible Man, which Ellison described as “realism that goes beyond and becomes surrealism.”

It was the progenitor and type of all later non-rigid dirigibles.

So the name is appropriate if this machine is the progenitor of a robot race that will one day go to war.

Word Value for progenitor
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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