Usually means: Ancestors from which others descend.
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  1. progenitors: Merriam-Webster
  2. progenitors: Collins English Dictionary
  3. progenitors: Vocabulary.com
  4. Progenitors, progenitors: Wordnik
  5. progenitors: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. progenitors: Wiktionary
  7. progenitors: Dictionary.com
  8. Progenitors: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Progenitors: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. progenitors: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Progenitors: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (progenitor)

noun:  A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
noun:  A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.
noun:  (biology) An ancestral form of a species.
noun:  (figuratively) A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
noun:  (figuratively) Someone who originates something.
noun:  A founder.
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