[Dragaera] levidopt

[Philip Hart]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Frank Mayhar wrote:

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>> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, James Griffin wrote:
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>>> Notonide - sounds to me (broken down into bits) like: Not on(e) ide(a) =
>>> not one idea. confirm/deny?
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>> Rather English-bound.  I thought "notochord".  "Nide" for "nidus", nest?
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> Maybe it was the context, but it put me in mind of "neotenous."  FWIW.


That seems quite good to me - neotony is the retention of early 
characteristics into adulthood, important for e.g. h. sapiens.
But I don't recall off-hand how that applies to the description
in question.