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单词 progenitor
释义
progenitorpro‧gen‧i‧tor /prəʊˈdʒenɪtə $ proʊˈdʒenɪtər/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINprogenitor
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin progignere ‘to produce young’
Examples
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  • Actually, scientists say that cloned animals will not be exact replicas of their progenitors.
  • Binet is considered the progenitor of intelligence testing.
  • But he carved his place in Sooner lore and will go down as the progenitor of the Oklahoma program's rebirth.
  • Despite the changing modes of life, they are attentive to the paradoxical utterances of their progenitor.
  • Pure Przewalski's horses, genetically the closest to the wild progenitors of domestic breeds, are all in zoos.
  • Thatcher was merely the midwife for Essex man: the progenitor was Tony Benn.
  • They are derivative of the culture, not the progenitors of it.
  • They became yet more complex, true progenitors of real plants and animals.
1formal someone who first thought of an ideaprogenitor of a progenitor of cubism2 technical a person or animal that lived in the past, to whom someone or something living now is related SYN  ancestor
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