neote(i)nic

neote(i)nic
adj. or n. [Gr. neos, new; teinein, to extend]
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In Isoptera, a supplementary reproductive in a colony that may retain some juvenile characters; the word is used both as a noun and adjective (a neoteinic or neoteinic reproductive). Now spelled neotenic.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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