Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, or characterized by, neoteny.
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- adjective Exhibiting
neoteny .
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- adjective of or relating to or characterized by neoteny
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Examples
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Tiger salamanders often become neotenic (retaining their larval forms) even reproducing as larvae, and only rarely metamorphosing into terrestrial adults.
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"Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love."
Archive 2007-12-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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"Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love."
Here's where I pick out all my favorite quotes from the things I've collected on this blog over the past year. Ann Althouse 2007
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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." Ann Althouse 2007
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"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." Ann Althouse 2007
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"Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love."
Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Like the cute but dangerous Gloomy Bear who is adorable, neotenic and pink -- but a bear!
Electric Kawaii! K. A. Laity 2006
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I do think that more derived dogs are more neotenic a la the Russian fox experiment still going on I think.
Dog Origins 2006
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I do think that more derived dogs are more neotenic a la the Russian fox experiment still going on I think.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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Like the cute but dangerous Gloomy Bear who is adorable, neotenic and pink -- but a bear!
Archive 2006-12-01 K. A. Laity 2006
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