Definitions for mimicry

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mimicry mim·ic·ry

Spelling: [mim-ik-ree]

IPA: /ˈmɪm ɪk ri/

Mimicry is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in mimicry (ciimmry).

Definitions for mimicry

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 mimicry

First recorded in 1680-90; mimic + -ry

Examples for mimicry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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