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

Sturm, prepotency of transmission of characters in sheep and cattle, ii.

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

Cabbage. affected by pollen of purple bastard. prepotency of other pollen.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles

Lupinus luteus. measurements. early flowering of self-fertilised. self-fertile. prepotency of other pollen. — pilosus. self-fertile.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom 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