prepotency

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As Rockefeller’s oil prepotency waned, global production flourished; in a frantically developing industrialized world, oil reserves took on strategic importance.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2013

In the same chapter I shall show that the rate at which a species or breed absorbs and obliterates another by repeated crosses, depends in chief part on prepotency in transmission.

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

When we consider latent characters, the explanation of this form of prepotency will be obvious.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

Moral prepotency of and physical resemblance to his mother.

From A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by Patterson, J. G