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"sense": "sexual maturity of an organism still in its larval stage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "neoitineacht"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sexual maturity of an organism still in its larval stage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "neotenia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "sexual maturity of an organism still in its larval stage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "neotenia"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "neoténija",
"sense": "sexual maturity of an organism still in its larval stage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "неоте́ния"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Julius Kollmann"
],
"word": "neoteny"
}
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