Mimetic \Mi*met"ic\ (?; 277), Mimetical \Mi*met"ic*al\, [Gr. ?,
fr. ? to imitate.]
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1. Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.
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2. (Biol.) Characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals
and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms. See
Mimicry.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mimetic
adj 1: characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis; "a
mimetic dance"; "the mimetic presentation of images"
2: exhibiting mimicry; "mimetic coloring of a butterfly"; "the
mimetic tendency of infancy"- R.W.Hamilton
WordNet (r) 2.0
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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