neotenic
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]neotenic (not comparable)
- Exhibiting neoteny
- 2012 January, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist[1], 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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[edit]exhibiting neoteny
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Noun
[edit]neotenic (plural neotenics)
- Such an organism