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noun
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(biology) The retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult; seen, for example, in amphibians
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(biology) The sexual maturity of an organism still in its larval stage
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| neural crest |
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(anatomy) a strip of ectodermal material in the early vertebrate embryo inserted between the prospective neural plate and the epidermis
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| neurula |
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(Zoí¶logy): An embryo, or certain invertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed.
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| neurulation |
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- the process by which the beginnings of the vertebrate nervous system is formed in embryos
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| neuter |
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- A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
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Young " The world"s no ; it will wound or save
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(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
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(grammar) An intransitive verb.
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(biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
verb
- To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
adjective
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(archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
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South " In all our undertakings God will be either our friend or our enemy; for Providence never stands
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(grammar) Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex
- a noun; a termination; the gender
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(grammar) intransitive, Intransitive
- a verb
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(biology) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.
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| notochord |
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- A flexible rodlike structure that forms the main support of the body in the lowest chordates; a primitive spine
- A similar structure found in the embryos of vertebrates from which the spine develops
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