English Explanatory Dictionary

prepotency

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
  2. 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.

Word forms

prepotency prepotencies

Etymology

From pre- + potency.

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