Can a child exist before the mother is born?
1 : someone who first thinks of or does something : a person who begins something
2 : something that is a model for something else : something that begins the development of something else
3 biology : a person or animal in the past that is related to a person or animal living now
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Full Definition of progenitor
1a : an ancestor in the direct line : forefather
b : a biologically ancestral form
2 : precursor, originator
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Examples of progenitor
1 the progenitors of modern art
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