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Neotenic

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Exhibiting neoteny not-comparable

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or characterized by neoteny wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Such an organism

Etymology

Etymology 1

From neoteny + -ic.

Etymology 2

From neoteny + -ic.

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