From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishprogenitorpro‧gen‧i‧tor /prəʊˈdʒenɪtə $ proʊˈdʒenɪtər/ noun [countable]1formalCOME FROM/ORIGINATE someone who first thought of an ideaprogenitor ofa progenitor of cubism2HB technicalFAMILY a person or animal that lived in the past, to whom someone or something living now is relatedSYN ancestorExamples from the Corpusprogenitor• But he carved his place in Sooner lore and will go down as the progenitor of the Oklahoma program's rebirth.• Binet is considered the progenitor of intelligence testing.• Thatcher was merely the midwife for Essex man: the progenitor was Tony Benn.• They are derivative of the culture, not the progenitors of it.• Actually, scientists say that cloned animals will not be exactreplicas of their progenitors.• Despite the changing modes of life, they are attentive to the paradoxical utterances of their progenitor.• They became yet more complex, trueprogenitors of real plants and animals.• Pure Przewalski's horses, genetically the closest to the wildprogenitors of domesticbreeds, are all in zoos.progenitor of• Graham was a great progenitor ofmoderndance.Originprogenitor(1300-1400)Latinprogignere"to produce young"