Definitions for mimicries

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mimicries mim·ic·ry

Spelling: [mim-ik-ree]

IPA: /ˈmɪm ɪk ri/

Mimicries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in mimicries (ceiiimmrs).

Definitions for mimicries

noun

1. the act, practice, or art of mimicking.
2. Biology. the close external resemblance of an organism, the mimic, to some different organism, the model, such that the mimic benefits from the mistaken identity, as seeming to be unpalatable or harmful.
3. an instance, performance, or result of mimicking.

Origin of mimicries

First recorded in 1680-90; mimic + -ry

Examples for mimicries

Now, cabinet zoologists are never tired of writing about mimicry.

Terry's voice deepened in mimicry: "'No petticoats for mine!'"

Let us take the cases of mimicry amongst lepidoptera and other insects.

He attacks with telling effect the fantastic Darwinian "mimicry."

The children lie in ambush and fall upon one another in the mimicry of hunting.

No fact of your letter has interested me more than that about mimicry.

But she brought nothing back except her mimicry of the man's manner.

mimicry is an ingenious survival technique, albeit one that is of little use against bulldozers and chainsaws.

But this was an element of Jeff that I understood; his mimicry and his retention for music and melody.

The reason for this is, of course, that the resemblance in this instance cannot be a case of mimicry.