neotenic

English

Etymology

neoteny +‎ -ic

Adjective

neotenic (not comparable)

Exhibiting neoteny
- 2012 January, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist‎, 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)

Such an organism

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