Mimetic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mimetic \Mi*met"ic\ (?; 277), Mimetical \Mi*met"ic*al\, [Gr. ?,
     fr. ? to imitate.]
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     1. Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.
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     2. (Biol.) Characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals
        and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms. See
        {Mimicry}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "mimetic":
     apish, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, emulative,
     figurative, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative,
     imitative, incarnating, limning, mimic, mimish, onomatopoeic,
     onomatopoetic, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying,
     representational, representative, representing, simulative,
     symbolizing, typifying, vivid