Prepotency

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The condition of being greater in power, influence, or force than another or others; predominance.
  • n. Genetics The ability of one parent, variety, or strain to transmit individual traits to an offspring, apparently to the exclusion of the other parent, variety, or strain.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
  • n. The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
  • n. The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or quality of being prepotent; superior power, influence, or efficiency; predominance; prevalence.
  • n. In biology, the preponderating power or tendency of one germ-cell, one parent, or one ancestor to fix the character of descendants.
  • n. The resemblance of a child to its parent of the same sex as regards any quality.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the state of being predominant over others
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    control    dominance    ascendence    ascendency    ascendancy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    predominance   
     
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