neotenic

English

Etymology

neoteny +‎ -ic

Adjective

neotenic (not comparable)

  1. Exhibiting neoteny
    • 2012 January 1, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46:
      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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Noun

neotenic (plural neotenics)

  1. Such an organism
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