Synonyms for progenitor
proʊˈdʒɛn ɪ tərpro·gen·i·tor

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1. progenitor, primogenitornoun

   an ancestor in the direct line

   Synonyms:
   primogenitor

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1. • Ancestor

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1. progenitornoun

   Synonyms:
   ancestor, forefather

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1. List of paraphrases for "progenitor":

   ancestor, strains, ancestral, parent, forerunner

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. progenitor

   Synonyms:
   Precursor, see there
   

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1. Daniel Perley:

   The properties of the Cow strain nearly all models we have tried to devise to explain it, whatever it is, it must involve some form of energetic and very fast explosion interacting with an extremely dense shell of material very close to the explosion progenitor.

2. Kaustubh Rajwade:

   Until now, only one other repeating FRB was known to show such a pattern in its bursting activity, finding such a pattern reveals important clues as to what could [ be ] the progenitor of FRBs. A periodicity tell us that the object that is producing FRBs is probably in an orbit with another astrophysical body.

3. Charles Kilpatrick:

   When it exploded, it seemed like a very normal hydrogen-free supernova, there was nothing outstanding about this. But the progenitor star didn't match what we know about this type of supernova.

4. Charles Kilpatrick:

   Unlike its normal behavior right after it exploded, the hydrogen interaction revealed it's kind of this oddball supernova, but it's exceptional that we were able to find its progenitor star in Hubble data. In four or five years, I think we will be able to learn more about what happened.