Meaning

1 senses

  1. Such an organism

Examples

2 sentences

  1. My mother has no wrinkles, as my family is neotenic.

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  2. People living in urban centers for generations tend to have more neotenic, androgynous features than those who've lived in the countryside.

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Forms

plural: neotenics
Singularneotenic
Pluralneotenics

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
neologismneonneophyteC2nephewB1nepotismner

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