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

But, like their parents, in some, the Dominant, in others, the Recessive traits are prepotent.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

By prepotent we mean having unusual power to transmit characters to offspring.

From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)

Internal secretion traits are inherited, and variations in heredity are essentially the structural representation of the resultant of a parallelogram of forces exerted by each of the parental prepotent glands.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.