Definitions for progenitors

progenitors pro·gen·i·tor

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

Progenitors is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1043 anagrams from letters in progenitors (eginooprrst).

Definitions for progenitors

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 progenitors

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

Examples for progenitors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 progenitors
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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