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

An adjunction of characteristics, moral prepotency of his father, physical likeness to his mother.

From A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by Patterson, J. G

But it does not follow from this that in each particular case certain characters will reappear: for instance, this will not occur when a race is crossed with another endowed with prepotency of transmission.

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

This has also been enforced by statements as to the prepotency of certain pollen of identical species, but of distinct races.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George