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

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

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

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

In only one genus, Cannabis, did the leaves sink in the evening, and Kraus attributes this movement to the prepotency of their epinastic growth.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles