"neotenic" meaning in English

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          "word": "neotenic complex syndrome"
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          "ref": "2012 January 21, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-05-23, page 46:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "sense": "exhibiting neoteny",
          "word": "neoteeninen"
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          "sense": "exhibiting neoteny",
          "word": "neotenisch"
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          "sense": "exhibiting neoteny",
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      "sense": "exhibiting neoteny",
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