neoteny
/niːˈɒtənɪ/noun
mass noun
1- Zoology the retention of juvenile features in the adult animal【动】幼态延续。亦称PAEDOMORPHOSIS.
1.1
- the sexual maturity of an animal while it is still in a mainly larval state, as in the axolotl幼期性熟。亦称PAEDOGENESIS.
派生词
neotenic
adjectiveneotenous
adjective词源
late 19th cent.: coined in German as Neotenie, from Greek neos 'new' (in the sense 'juvenile') + teinein 'extend'.