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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mimetic \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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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
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