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US
/ˌniəˈtinɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or characterized by neoteny
neotenic development
How To Use neotenic In A Sentence
- neotenic development
- Humans are neotenic apes, ostriches are neotenic birds; we retain useful infantile characteristics into adulthood.
- Althouse: "Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love. "Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love."
- Humans would have selected (and been more able to control) animals with neotenic variations because they were more tractable.
- However, the young man can take advantage of the fact that older men are also of the generation before, who are less neotenic and look more like apes.
- 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.
- Adults sirens are aquatic and neotenic, with lengths ranging from 4-36 inches.
- This certainly appears to be the case in neotenic salamanders, for example.
- Direct-developing and normal biphasic frogs have slightly larger genomes, followed by biphasic, then direct-developing, and finally facultatively and then obligately neotenic salamanders.
- Like the cute but dangerous Gloomy Bear who is adorable, neotenic and pink -- but a bear! Electric Kawaii!