What is "neotenic"

Usage examples of "neotenic".

The Neotenic Infantry: genetically engineered, cloned, psychologically programmed killing machines, packaged to look like children.

The Neotenic Infantry had been a step towards the emergence of entire factions of child-sized Slashers.

She remarked on his Roman toe-the second longer than the third on each foot-a neotenic trait.

The promise is that while many gawks remain gawks all their lives, neotenic anomalies, some few become something more.

The Oganta were a neotenic species who had lost, or almost lost, their adult form.

The halves of George were at the moment served by two female Oganta one of them as spiritual, one of them as carnal as it is possible for neotenic frog-humans to be.

Imagine neotenics breeding, reproducing, and never attaining an adult form.