Definitions for prepotent

prepotent pre·po·tent

Spelling: [pree-poht-nt]
IPA: /priˈpoʊt nt/

Prepotent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in prepotent (eenopprtt).

Definitions for prepotent

adjective

  1. preeminent in power, authority, or influence; predominant:
  2. Genetics. noting, pertaining to, or having prepotency.

Origin of prepotent

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin praepotent- (stem of praepotēns), present participle of praeposse to have greater power. See pre-, potent

Examples for prepotent

When two species are crossed, one has sometimes a prepotent power of impressing its likeness on the hybrid.

They are not of necessity midway between the two parents; one of the parents may be prepotent.

An ambiguous, prepotent figure had come to disturb the ancient, subtle, and jealously guarded balance of the English Constitution.

The Italian race is, I believe, prepotent in mixed marriages.

Such Dominants are a bi-sexual species in which the male is prepotent.

I suppose you will answer that the European forms are prepotent, but this is riding prepotency to death.

The mark of this prepotent previous man is left on the house from cellar to attic.

Probably no stock ever came here so gifted and prepotent as the French Huguenots.

Thirdly, prepotency of transmission, which may be confined to one sex, or be common to both sexes of the prepotent form.

The famous bull Favourite is believed to have had a prepotent influence on the shorthorn race.

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