Mimicry
['mɪmɪkrɪ] or ['mɪmɪkri]
Definition
(noun.) the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects; provides concealment and protection from predators.
Checked by Jerome--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.
(n.) Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies; imitation; mimesis; mimetism.
Typist: Millie
Examples
- Even Dobbin would shoot out a sudden peal at the boy's mimicry. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Had this mimicry occurred in only one or two instances, it might have been passed over as a strange coincidence. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Editor: Seth