Crossword-Solution: PREPOTENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prepotent | a. | Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant. |
| Prepotent | a. | Characterized by prepotency. |
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| Very powerful | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PREPOTENT (5)
And prepotent! My word! His blood'd breed true for a thousand generations, and the cool head and the kindly brave heart of him." Terrence did not voice his sorrow, if sorrow he had; but his hovering about Biddy tokened his anxiety for her.
Insects act like a camel-hair pencil, and it is sufficient, to ensure fertilisation, just to touch with the same brush the anthers of one flower and then the stigma of another; but it must not be supposed that bees would thus produce a multitude of hybrids between distinct species; for if a plant’s own pollen and that from another species are placed on the same stigma, the former is so prepotent that it invariably and completely destroys, as has been shown by Gärtner, the influence of the foreign pollen.
How, then, comes it that such a vast number of the seedlings are mongrelized? It must arise from the pollen of a distinct _variety_ having a prepotent effect over the flower’s own pollen; and that this is part of the general law of good being derived from the intercrossing of distinct individuals of the same species.
When distinct _species_ are crossed the case is reversed, for a plant’s own pollen is always prepotent over foreign pollen; but to this subject we shall return in a future chapter.
When two species are crossed, one has sometimes a prepotent power of impressing its likeness on the hybrid.