prepotent

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Without these most prepotent needs met, people do not even get an opportunity for further growth as a human.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2017

Perhaps not since the full-blown Garbo has the old world offered to the new such a prepotent image of the eternal feminine as can be seen in the mysteriously soulful face of Maria Schell.

From Time Magazine Archive

Secondly, seed should be used from plants which have been proven to produce seed, which will develop into plants like themselves or are strongly prepotent.

From Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato by Tracy, W. W. (William Warner)

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 the same result.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel

And if the parents' traits are similar Their traits may be prepotent in a child, Thus giving rise to qualities convergent.

From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee