Progenitor is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROGENITOR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an ancestor in the direct line
• a person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent
• a person who originates a cultural or intellectual movement
• an ancestor in the direct line; a forefather
• An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an ancestor in the direct lin; forefather; a biologically ancestral form

Words related to PROGENITOR

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Words that contain PROGENITOR

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How to use PROGENITOR in a sentence

• Here is a sanctuary dedicated to the memory of Edris, progenitor and founder of the dynasty of Edrisiti.
• Bernard and the Miniature Black and Tan Terrier, and is perplexed in contemplating the possibility of their having descended from a common progenitor.
• His progeny were legion, and some very good terriers of to-day own him as progenitor in nearly every line.
• The Mahomedans suppose it to be that of our vigorous progenitor, Adam, and the Buddhists that of their large-toothed divinity, Buddha.
• But Nalasu had been famous as a great fighter, as well as having been the progenitor of three such warlike sons.
• Let it be remembered that no man has ever witnessed an act of creation, the sudden appearance of an organic form, without any progenitor.
• His wild and savage progenitor is lost, and we have in his place a sluggish animal that is a very model as a food producer.
• The legend of AEneas, when he first appears noticed as a progenitor of the Romans, differs materially from that which afterwards prevailed.
• Darwin has, in our opinion, satisfactorily demonstrated to be the progenitor of all our domestic pigeons, of which there are certainly more than a hundred well-marked races.
• Darwin here seeks to show that sexual selection has been operative on man and his primitive progenitor.
• And it is here we find the principal progenitor of Gnosticism.
• He inferred, indeed, that since the line was to end, it had chosen a fitting finish in his immediate progenitor.
• The pastoral drama of Italy is the immediate progenitor of that of England.
• But to the progenitor of the upland goose and of the frigate-bird, webbed feet no doubt were as useful as they now are to the most aquatic of existing birds.
• Although that irony was the progenitor of the comic spirit which now in his maturity dominates him, it has never shaken off the romantic elements which originally nourished it.
• It was, in fact, the direct progenitor of the old three-decker which some people still alive can well remember.
• This progenitor of the frigate and the cruiser was itself descended from the long-boat of the Norsemen and still used oars as occasion served.
• The natural man, at least in our temperate climates, and as exhibited in the behaviour of his natural progenitor, the child, is all for vigour and experiment.
• In pulling up the tares he endangered the wheat, and from him, as a progenitor, came the Lollards, a fanatical, violent, and revolutionary sect.
• Somebody else probably got broken shoulders before your nimble progenitor took possession.
• In him were combined the intellectual and moral vigor which are calculated to make the progenitor of a great family.
• She was simply a high-toned freak, but an animal with a clean pedigree back to some great progenitor is valuable independently of individual earning qualities.
• I have sometimes thought that the progenitor of the whole class must have been a crested animal.
• Far be it from me to dance upon the grave of a friend, like heirs upon that of a progenitor.

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