princess
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Yet one individual, the emperor — known as the princeps — held what were essentially emergency powers over domestic and foreign affairs.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2019
Today, the record-holder is a microbe called Tremblaya princeps, which contains only 120 protein-coding genes.
From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2013
With just 121 protein-coding genes, the diminutive Tremblaya princeps, a symbiotic bacterium that lives inside specialized cells of the sap-eating mealybug, has the smallest known genome of any cellular organism on the planet.
From Scientific American • Jun. 24, 2013
They soon noticed something strange: Individually, neither the larger bacterium, Tremblaya princeps, nor its internal partner, Moranella endobia, had the biochemical machinery needed to convert sap into the amino acids mealybugs need.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 11, 2011
Of Decorated Fonts in the county of Norfolk, that of Upton must be accounted facile princeps.
From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various
