Usually means: Ancestor or originator of something.
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  1. progenitor: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. progenitor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. progenitor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. progenitor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. progenitor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Progenitor, progenitor: Wordnik
  7. progenitor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. progenitor: Wiktionary
  9. progenitor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. progenitor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. progenitor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. progenitor: Dictionary.com
  13. progenitor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Progenitor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Progenitor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. progenitor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. progenitor: Rhymezone
  18. Progenitor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. progenitor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. progenitor: Free Dictionary
  21. progenitor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. progenitor: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. progenitor: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. progenitor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. progenitor: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PROGENITOR, PROGENITOR, PROGENITOR: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. progenitor: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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