About The Word Mimetic
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Mimetic
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What's The Definition Of Mimetic?
[adj] exhibiting mimicry; "mimetic coloring of a butterfly"; "the mimetic tendency of infancy"- R.W.Hamilton
[adj] characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis; "a mimetic dance"; "the mimetic presentation of images" Synonyms | Synonyms for Mimetic: imitative | representational Related Terms | Find terms related to Mimetic: apish | delineatory | depictive | echoic | embodying | emulative | figurative | graphic | ideographic | illustrational | illustrative | imitative | incarnating | limning | mimic | mimish | onomatopoeic | onomatopoetic | personifying | pictographic | pictorial | portraying | representational | representative | representing | simulative | symbolizing | typifying | vivid See Also | Mimetic In Webster's Dictionary \Mi*met"ic\ (?; 277), Mimetical \Mi*met"ic*al\, [Gr. ?,
fr. ? to imitate.]
1. Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.
2. (Biol.) Characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals
and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms. See
{Mimicry}.
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