prepotency
English
Etymology
pre- + potency
Noun
prepotency (countable and uncountable, plural prepotencies)
- The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
- (biology) 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.
Translations
the quality or condition of being prepotent
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References
- prepotency in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.