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progenitors

NOUN
family
Synonyms
STRONGEST
clan folk group house household people tribe
STRONG
ancestors ancestry birth blood brood children class descendants descent dynasty extraction forebears genealogy generations genre in-laws inheritance issue kind kindred line lineage network parentage pedigree progeny race relations relationship relatives siblings strain subdivision system
WEAK
heirs and assigns kith and kin menage ménage
Antonyms
STRONG
parent
NOUN
lineage
Synonyms
STRONGEST
clan descent genealogy origin pedigree
STRONG
birth blood breed descendants extraction family folk forebears heredity house kin kindred line offspring progeny race stock succession tribe
WEAK
stirps
Antonyms
STRONG
parent
NOUN
menage
Synonyms
STRONG
ancestors ancestry birth blood brood children clan class descendants descent dynasty extraction folk forebears genealogy generations genre group house household in-laws inheritance issue kind kindred line lineage network parentage pedigree people progeny race relations relationship relatives siblings strain subdivision system tribe
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heirs and assigns kith and kin ménage
Antonyms
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parent

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Those animals were the progenitors of the vast Native American pony herds of later centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Its progenitors - who now can generate videos of literally anything in just a few minutes - have the potential to disrupt the lucrative influencer economy.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

Furthermore, the Midwest broadly has a history of engineering new music to dance to, as queer Black men in Detroit are often uncredited as the progenitors of techno as we understand it today.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025

A comprehensive and extensively documented examination of the people who started the whole shebang, the progenitors or precursors for all the books on your list.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

Many of these late-stage fruit trees posed a further problem in that their wild progenitors were the opposite of self-pollinating.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond