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præcursor

præcursor is the obsolete form of precursor.

Meaning of precursor

Noun

precursor (plural precursors)

  1. That which precurses: a forerunner, predecessor, or indicator of approaching events.
    • Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of...2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist
  2. One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound.

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Forms of præcursor

pluralpræcursors

Questions about præcursor

What is præcursor the obsolete form of?
Præcursor is the obsolete form of precursor.

Words near præcursor in the dictionary

  1. præcludes
  2. præcluding
  3. præcordia
  4. præcordial
  5. præcordium
  6. præcursor
  7. præcursors
  8. prædator
  9. prædators
  10. prædatory
  11. prædecessor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præcursor (page history and authors); precursor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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