A person or thing that comes before another of the same kind.
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A precursor is something that comes before something else.
A 'precursor' (all one word) is a person or thing that comes before another of the same kind, who/which is usually greater than the precursor. The word comes from the Latin word prae (meaning beforehand) and currere (meaning to run) which means to run before.
This likely is from the Latin precursor word pater(father).
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The root word "curs" means "to run". Some examples of this are "current, concurrent, concur, incur, recur, occur, precursor, cursive".
It turned out that the nausea I felt wasn't from the black coffee I drank, but was the precursor to a terrible stomach flu that lasted all week.The original Law & Order was not only the precursor to three other Law & Order shows, but to a whole new generation of American crime shows.
The precursor of basophils is the basophil progenitor cell, the precursor of monoblasts is the monoblast cell, the precursor of lymphoblasts is the lymphoblast cell, the precursor of megakaryoblasts is the megakaryoblast cell, and the precursor of myeloblasts is the myeloblast cell. These precursor cells undergo differentiation and maturation processes to become fully functional mature blood cells.
Humans. More specifically, young girls may be referred to as poppets. (This is from the Middle English word for puppet.) The term is also used to mean simple stick representations of human figures, a precursor to the voodoo doll.
Humans. More specifically, young girls may be referred to as poppets. (This is from the Middle English word for puppet.) The term is also used to mean simple stick representations of human figures, a precursor to the voodoo doll.
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