neotenic
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- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 8
Definition of neotenic
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Exhibiting neoteny
“Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.”
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adj
-
(not-comparable)Exhibiting neoteny
“Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.”
noun
- Such an organism
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From neoteny + -ic.
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