neotenic

English

Etymology

neoteny +‎ -ic

Adjective

neotenic (not comparable)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• pedomorphic

Derived terms

• neotenic complex syndrome

 

Translations

exhibiting neoteny

• Finnish: neoteeninen (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: neotenisch
• Italian: neotenico (it)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Noun

neotenic (plural neotenics)

1. Such an organism