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
Indeed, there seems to be, in many instances, a prepotent influence about a newly-arisen variety which gives it what one may call an unfair advantage over the normal descendants from the same stock.
From Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Huxley, Thomas Henry
In making reciprocal crosses between pouter and fantail pigeons, the pouter-race seemed to be prepotent through both sexes over the fantail.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
Thirdly, prepotency of transmission, which may be confined to one sex, or be common to both sexes of the prepotent form.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
