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How to use progenitor in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun

Progenitor means a forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors. Example: “Abraham, alias Ibrahim, is the presumed progenitor of both the Jewish and Arab peoples.”

Examples of progenitor by meaning

nounA person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.

  • Abraham, alias Ibrahim, is the presumed progenitor of both the Jewish and Arab peoples.

nounA predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.

  • ARPANET was the progenitor of the Internet.
  • Are neural progenitor cells infected by Zika virus?
  • The progenitor of the modern bound book, the codex gradually supplanted the scroll, a medium inimical to the indexer’s art.2022 February 15, Margalit Fox, “Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the...

More sentences with progenitor

  • The moong bean was domesticated in India, where its progenitor (Vigna radiata subsp. sublobata) occurs wild.2024, Mr. Rohit Manglik, Economic Botany and Biodiversity Conservation, EduGorilla Publication, page 32. From the entry moong bean
  • The pouched metatherians, the progenitors of marsupials, used to be common all over North America.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 102. From the entry metatherian
  • Kapila's father was Kardama Prajapati, one of the early progenitors of the human race.2019, Swami Satyamayananda, Ancient Sages, Advaita Ashrama, →ISBN. From the entry Kardama
  • One of these, the Honan Lung-shan culture, was probably the progenitor of the Shang civilization.1976, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 133. From the entry Lung-shan
  • Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor bar none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry farraginous
  • Only in puerice do we possess the inverecund innocence of our primaeval progenitors.1909, Frederick Rolfe, Don Renato. From the entry inverecund
  • The three primary pigment cell types arise directly from a neural-crest-derived progenitor cell (chromoblast) with a tripotent pigment organelle.2023 April 13, Mirindi Kabangu, Raissa Cecil, Lloyd Strohl II, et al., “Leukocyte Tyrosine Kinase (Ltk) Is the Mendelian Determinant of…. From the entry chromoblast
  • The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king.2021, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. From the entry fisticuff
  • The majority of phenotypic progenitor (blast region) cells were shown to be lymphoid (8.8% hematogones) and not myeloid.2015 August 17, Kathleen Overholt et al., “Promyelocytic Leukemia with No Retinoic Acid Receptor Alpha Abnormality but with RUNX1T1…. From the entry hematogones
  • In these YouTubian times, there's a certain peril in conducting a multi-city stand-up comedy tour: Punch lines precede their progenitor.2008 April 21, Teresa Wiltz, “Sharp Edge, Lethal Aim: Chris Rock Brings the Pain to D.C.”, in The Washington Post. From the entry YouTubian
  • Its progenitor was still merely the Minister of Defence.1975, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Dastur Dhalla, page 402. From the entry Pahlavi Iran
  • CFU-GEMM cells are the oligopotential progenitor cells for myeloid cells; they are thus also called common myeloid progenitor cells or myeloid stem cells.2025 February 27, Wikipedia contributors, “CFU-GEMM”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. From the entry oligopotential
  • Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology has enriched the armamentarium of regenerative medicine by introducing autologous pluripotent progenitor pools bioengineered from ordinary somatic tissue.2010, Timothy J. Nelson et al., "Induced pluripotent stem cells: advances to applications," Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and…. From the entry armamentarium
  • For instance, the most plausible stylistic progenitors of Yorick's rhapsodic upliftments of language are the astonishing outbursts of Theocles in 'The Moralists'.1982, Mark Loveridge, Laurence Sterne and the argument about design. From the entry upliftment
  • Surely very noticeable, those five malted progenitors: probably gatherers of much of the wealth which set up the family, and shoved it by Qu.a. 1920, Louise Imogen Guiney, edited by Grace Guiney, Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney, volume 2, published 1926, page 152. From the entry qu.
  • In order to probe the nature of the long-duration GRB progenitor, it is critical to understand the nature of the circumburst medium in which the progenitor is immersed.2014, Robert Allan Mesler III, Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor. From the entry circumburst
  • But it was the fish who was the ultimate progenitor of these humen who troll in the fecund electronic fluids in which we now all swim.2002 December 15, >parr(*>, “who do you hate the most?”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jun 2026. From the entry humen
  • In no case does citizenship, or burghership, appear to rest upon the basis of a real or assumed community of descent from a single real or mythical progenitor.1902, John Fiske, “The Federal Unioin”, in Harpers. From the entry burghership
  • It is unknown whether this signal of positive selection results from the MERS-CoV progenitor, from another DPP4-utilizing bat coronavirus, such as BtCoV-HKU4, or from a noncoronavirus that also utilizes DPP4.2015, Kayla M. Peck, Christina L. Burch, Mark T. Heise, Ralph S. Baric, “Coronavirus Host Range Expansion and Middle East Respiratory…. From the entry noncoronavirus
  • He then spoke in the usual boastful manner of his progenitors, added a flaming panegyric upon himself, and strolled down the road to repeat his speech at the next house.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 197. From the entry panegyric
  • Some Northern Murdochs may be of the same stock of the Murthacs of Rothes, heirs of the Pollocks, and progenitors through incessive heiresses of the Watsons and Leslies of Rothes.1904, John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson, Scottish Notes and Queries, page 124. From the entry incessive

Meaning of progenitor

  1. noun A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
  2. noun A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.
  3. noun An ancestral form of a species.

Full definition of progenitor

Questions about progenitor in a sentence

How do you use progenitor in a sentence?
Progenitor is used as a noun. For example: “Abraham, alias Ibrahim, is the presumed progenitor of both the Jewish and Arab peoples.”
What is a short sentence with progenitor?
“ARPANET was the progenitor of the Internet.”
What does progenitor mean?
Progenitor means a forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.

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