neotenic

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10
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13
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8

Definition of neotenic

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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

  1. (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

  1. Such an organism

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Etymology

From neoteny + -ic.

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