prepotency
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
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 edit
the quality or condition of being prepotent
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References edit
- “prepotency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.