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prepollent

prepollent adjective: having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant.

Adjective

prepollent

  1. Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant.
    • But the prepollent Gravity of some, being sufficient to give comparative Lightness or Gravity to Bodies, we must deny Nature this Prerogative.1686, Robert Boyle, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature

Noun

prepollent (plural prepollents)

  1. An extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the preaxial side of the pollex.

Forms of prepollent

pluralprepollents

Origin of prepollent

From Latin praepollēns, present participle of praepollēre (“to surpass in power”).

Questions about prepollent

What does prepollent mean?
Prepollent means having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant.
What part of speech is prepollent?
Prepollent can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near prepollent in the dictionary

  1. prepolitical
  2. prepolitically
  3. prepoll
  4. prepollence
  5. prepollency
  6. prepollent
  7. prepollents
  8. prepollex
  9. prepollices
  10. prepolling
  11. prepolls

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