Neotenic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Neotenic is an adjective meaning Exhibiting neoteny.
Meaning
Exhibiting neoteny.
More Meanings
- Such an organism
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- neotenics
Synonyms for neotenic
Depending on context, synonyms include pedomorphic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include salamanders, neotenous, heterotopous, neotypal, neomorphosed, neomale.
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