neotenic en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English neoteny Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English neotenic From neoteny + -ic.
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(not-comparable) Exhibiting neoteny
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.
2012 January 14, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46:
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sv neotenisk (exhibiting neoteny) · de neotenisch (exhibiting neoteny) · it neotenico (exhibiting neoteny) · fi neoteeninen (exhibiting neoteny)