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Mimetic

adjective
1.
Characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis.  "The mimetic presentation of images"
2.
Exhibiting mimicry.  "The mimetic tendency of infancy"





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"Mimetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... little time ago your report on noxious insects, and have now read the whole with the greatest interest. (706/2. "Third Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial, and other Insects of the State of Missouri" (Jefferson City, Mo.). The mimetic case occurs at page 67; the 1875 pupae of Pterophorus periscelidactylus, the "Grapevine Plume," have pupae either green or reddish brown, the former variety being found on the leaves, the latter on the brown stems of the vine.) There are a vast number of facts and generalisations of ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Mimetic" :   mimesis, imitative, representational


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