prepotent
Example Sentences
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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
On the other hand, the mother's traits, prepotent in the development of daughters, will inhibit in these and diminish the strength and stature of their paternal inherences.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
If a father is prepotent, he may have a greater effect in producing the formed child than the mother has, and vice versa, as when a son closely resembles his father or his mother.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
Secondly, seed should be used from plants which have been proven to produce seed, which will develop into plants like themselves or are strongly prepotent.
From Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato by Tracy, W. W. (William Warner)
