Definitions
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- adj. Exhibiting neoteny.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to, or characterized by, neoteny.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. of or relating to or characterized by neoteny
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Examples
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Tiger salamanders often become neotenic (retaining their larval forms) even reproducing as larvae, and only rarely metamorphosing into terrestrial adults.
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Althouse: "Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love."
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"Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love."
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Like the cute but dangerous Gloomy Bear who is adorable, neotenic and pink -- but a bear!
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I do think that more derived dogs are more neotenic a la the Russian fox experiment still going on I think.
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Sermonti therefore argues that neotenic organisms - in which juvenile traits persist into adulthood, e.g. gills in adult salamanders - must be archaic, because their features appear earlier in development.
Of Form over Substance: a review of Sermonti - The Panda's Thumb
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In Cercidiphyllum, the vegetative body is partly or mostly produced in the reproductive line, suggesting a neotenic ancestral form, in which the vegetative development was drastically reduced relative to reproductive domain.
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Rodrigo is the best-known of the Mexican neotenic mole salamanders belonging to the Tiger Salamander complex.
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These immatures can develop into winged sexuals that disperse and found a new nest or into neotenic replacement reproductives that inherit the natal colony.
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... a preference of neotenic and youthful-appearing features.
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