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progenitive

[ proh-jen-i-tiv ]

adjective

  1. capable of having offspring; reproductive.


progenitive

/ əʊˈɛɪɪ /

adjective

  1. capable of bearing offspring
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԾپԱ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·i·پ·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of progenitive1

First recorded in 1830–40; progenit(or) + -ive
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Example Sentences

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The progenitive faculty of this worthy divine must have been highly developed: he was married four times, and was dismissed from his church at Lynn on account of charges twice preferred against him by women of his congregation.

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This kind of reading is necessarily singular and labor-intensive rather than dialectical or progenitive.

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Thus a spiritual gingham impressed upon his soul of souls a matrix, out of which, by a fine progenitive effort, he now begets and ejects a materialized gingham into a potato-plot of the garden without.

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The Gauchos call the former the "Padre del sal," and the latter the "Madre;" they state that these progenitive salts always occur on the borders of the salinas, when the water begins to evaporate.

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