progenitor

Example Sentences

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“An animal — other than laboratory animals — hosting a virus that could be regarded as the direct progenitor of the pandemic virus was not found, and likely does not exist,” he told Inside the Ring.

From Washington Times

This is based on pure conjecture that the lab was working either on the virus itself or a close progenitor that somehow escaped into the wild.

From Los Angeles Times

Out of the yolk sac, they even observed the development of progenitors of blood cells.

From New York Times

The wild rock pigeon is the progenitor of the common domestic pigeon, that plump “rat of the sky” that flits from park bench to sidewalk to somewhere dangerously overhead.

From New York Times

Hailed in his later years as a progenitor of remix culture, Mr. Anger prided himself as an outsider who belonged to no particular movement.

From New York Times