неотения

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic نەوتەنيا
Cyrillic неотения
Latin neotenia

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian неотени́я (neoteníja), from German Neotenie, from Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “young”) + τείνειν (teínein, “to tense”).

Noun

неотения • (neoteniä)

  1. (biology) neoteny
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