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

Wilson, Mr., on prepotency of transmission in sheep, ii.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

Wilson, Dr., prepotency of the Manx over the common cat, ii.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

The prepotency of the sire is apparent at the first glance, and to so marked an extent that the illustration would pass muster anywhere as having been drawn from a full-blood buffalo.

From The Extermination of the American Bison by Hornaday, William Temple

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