prepollent

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English

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Etymology

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Latin praepollens, past participle of praepollere (to surpass in power).

Adjective

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prepollent

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

Noun

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prepollent (plural prepollents)

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

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