Meanings
- not comparableExhibiting 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 28, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46Synonyms: pedomorphic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveExhibiting neoteny
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveof or relating to or characterized by neoteny
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Finnish neoteeninen
- neoteeninenexhibiting neoteny
German neotenisch
- neotenischexhibiting neoteny
Italian neotenico
- neotenicoexhibiting neoteny
Swedish neotenisk
- neoteniskexhibiting neoteny
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neotenic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neotenic
“neotenic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neotenic. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “neotenic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neotenic.
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