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Prepotent   Listen
adjective
Prepotent  adj.  
1.
Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.
2.
(Biol.) Characterized by prepotency.





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"Prepotent" Quotes from Famous Books



... essentially of the same origin and traditions as themselves: just plain people who, however, had settled on the edge of the Big Town to make money and had made it. Pearson the elder was hardly more prepotent than Mr. Lusk, the banker at home. George himself was a dashing go-ahead: if he turned into a tired business-man his wife would know how to ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller
... necessary to carry the pollen from one plant to another, because in each flower the pollen is shed before the stigma is ready to receive it. We have here, therefore, either almost complete sterility between varieties of different colours, or a prepotent effect of pollen from a flower of the same colour, bringing about ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace


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