progenitor

That extra spin in the progenitor star might have been enough to give the neutron star more magnetic power, making it a magnetar.

So the name is appropriate if this machine is the progenitor of a robot race that will one day go to war.

FYMW is, in some ways, the progenitor of menswear on Tumblr.

Stylistically it is a progenitor of Invisible Man, which Ellison described as “realism that goes beyond and becomes surrealism.”

He is a progenitor of what could be called the degenerate school of American fiction.

He assumed to be a king; but the son of Ocrisia became one in reality, and instituted games in honour of his divine progenitor.

The pure-bred Peruvian horse is more elegantly formed than his Andalusian progenitor.

The natives call this little animal the Cui del Montes, and they believe it to be the progenitor of the tame Guinea pig.

Each day foretells the next, if one could read the signs; to-day is the progenitor of to-morrow.

Those who hold that Adam was the progenitor of the Jews only, and not of the whole human race.