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progenitor(dictionary)
progenitor(dictionary)
Progenitor(medicine)

Elliot, Robert (medicine) and progenitor (iou)


Elliot, Robert (medicine)


Elliot, Robert
<person> British ophthalmologist, 1864-1936.

See: Elliot's operation.


progenitor (iou)



progenitor noun. LME.
[Old French progeniteur from Latin progenitor ancestor, from progenit- pa. ppl stem of progignere beget, formed as PRO-1 + gignere create: see -OR.]
A person from whom another person, a family, or a race is descended; an ancestor; a parent; Biology an ancestral species. LME.
A spiritual, political, or intellectual predecessor. L16.
The original of which a thing is a copy. L19.
progeni'torial adjective of, pertaining to, or of the Nature of a progenitor E19.
progenitorship noun the position or fact of being a progenitor E19.