mimicker (mimiker)

One who or that which mimics. mimicry (mim'ik-ri), n.; pl. mimicries (-riz). [ Absolute princes, who ruin their people by a mimicry of the great monarchs. Hume , E ays, ii. 11. IMG:content-0655.png:[blocks in formation] lates. 2. An imitation; that which imitates or simu In France an imitative school has executed skilful mimicries of ancient gla painting. Encyc . Brit ., X. 673. 3. In zoöl ., the simulation of something else in form or color, etc.; mimesis. Commonly called protective mimicry , from the immunity secured by such resemblance, as when the insect known as the walking-stick simulates a dead twig of a tree, when a butterfly a imilates in color to that of the flowers upon which it habitually feeds, or a bird's nest is so constructed as to resemble a bunch of mo on a bough, etc. Also mimetism . Both mimicry and imitation are [here] used in a meta which causes things unlike in structure to be mistaken phorical sense, as implying that close external likene for each other. A. R. Wallace, Nat. Select., p. 75.