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Many of you like my mother because she is neotenic and has black hair and olive skin tinged with light yellow. She is duplicitous about her Baptist Protestant beliefs, and she does try to understand Buddhism, nevertheless. Born Roman Catholic in the Philippines, she was a genteel woman when she was younger, but in later years in North America, she has become more melancholy and harsh. In later years, she still finds it difficult to control her jealousy and anger.
Source: tatoeba (10516128)
People living in urban centers for generations tend to have more neotenic, androgynous features than those who've lived in the countryside.
Source: tatoeba (10516164)
My mother has no wrinkles, as my family is neotenic.
Source: tatoeba (11624324)
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.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include juvenile, larval-like, neotenous, pedomorphic.
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