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Progenitor
December 6, 2019
9:19 pm
[ proh-jen-i-ter ]
any of a person’s direct ancestors; an ancestral form of a species
Examples of
progenitor
in a sentence:
Sharing a common
progenitor
meant that the two best friends were also 3rd cousins.
Some scientists suggest that because we share similar DNA, the human’s closest
progenitor
is chimpanzee.