The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prepotency \Pre*po"ten*cy\, n. [L. praepotentia: cf. F. pr['e]potence.]
The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.(Biol.) 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance. 2 (context biology English) 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.
Usage examples of "prepotency".
In only one genus, Cannabis, did the leaves sink in the evening, and Kraus attributes this movement to the prepotency of their epinastic growth.
The problem is that as the magic handling rises on the prepotency scale, the magic handler sinks off the other end of the biddableness scale.
Unless he is a person of extraordinary mental prepotency, she will almost insensibly determine the character of the home in a direction quite other than that of our first sketch.
In only one genus, Cannabis, did the leaves sink in the evening, and Kraus attributes this movement to the prepotency of their epinastic growth.