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mimetism Biol.|ˈmaɪmɪtɪz(ə)m|
[f. mimet-ic + -ism.]
= mimicry.
1882in Ogilvie. 1918B. Miall tr. Hamon's Lessons of World-War ix. 271 Men hide their guns..under canopies of leaves, in order to conceal them from the view of aeroplanes. Man adopts the mimetism of Nature. 1970Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Dec. 1480/5 The later history of the Inca dynasty is a depressing one of mimetism and osmosis. |