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mimotype Zool.|ˈmɪməʊtaɪp|
[f. Gr. µῖµο-ς mime n. (taken in the sense of ‘mimic’) + type n.]
‘A type or form of animal life which in one country is the analogue or representative of a type or form found in another country, to which it is not very closely related’ (Cent. Dict.).
1881T. Gill in Smithsonian Rep. 460 The quasi-representative forms are not only isotypes, but simply mimotypes. Foot-n. Mimotypes, forms distantly resembling each other, but fulfilling similar functions.
Hence mimotypic |mɪməʊˈtɪpɪk| a., relating to or having the character of a mimotype.
1890in Century Dict.; and in later Dicts. |