Mimicry Definition

mĭmĭ-krē
mimicries
noun
mimicries
The practice or art, or an instance or way, of mimicking.
Webster's New World
An instance of mimicking.
American Heritage
Close resemblance, in color, form, or behavior, of one organism to another or to some object in its environment, as of some insects to the leaves or twigs of plants: it serves to disguise or conceal an organism from a predator or prey.
Webster's New World

The act or ability to simulate the appearance of someone or something else.

They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me.
When animal mimicry goes really wrong they don't just look like something that a predator would ignore, they look like lunch.
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Noun

Singular:
mimicry
Plural:
mimicries

Mimicry Sentence Examples

  • A few cases of mimicry have been recorded in birds.

  • But if it be discovered, as is possible, that the drone-fly is also inedible, the mimicry must be ascribed to the Mullerian category, and the reason for it becomes less evident.

  • The results of this experiment with the baboon and of those with the birds are precisely what would be expected if the theory of mimicry is true.

  • The term mimicry has also been applied to resemblances of a different kind from the two enumerated above - resemblances, that is to say, by which predaceous species are supposed to be enabled to approach or mix without detection with animals they prey upon or victimize in other ways.

  • A few possible cases of aggressive mimicry are enumerated in the following summary of some of the recorded cases of mimicry in different classes of the animal kingdom; but the phenomenon is of comparatively rare occurrence, and the supposed instances may be susceptible of other interpretations, excluding them altogether from mimicry, or bringing them under the Batesian or Miillerian interpretation of the phenomenon.

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