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
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
In the foregoing remarks on non-inheritance, crossed breeds are of course excluded, as their diversity mainly depends on the unequal development of characters derived from either parent, modified by the principles of reversion and prepotency.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
It is therefore not surprising that every one hitherto has been baffled in drawing up general rules on the subject of prepotency.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
Moral prepotency of and physical likeness to his father.
From A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by Patterson, J. G
