Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, or characterized by, neoteny.
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- adjective Exhibiting
neoteny .
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- adjective of or relating to or characterized by neoteny
Etymologies
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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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"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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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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"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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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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Like the cute but dangerous Gloomy Bear who is adorable, neotenic and pink -- but a bear!
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