单词 | Batesian mimicry |
释义 | Batesian mimicry /bayt"see euhn/, Ecol. the protective resemblance in appearance of a palatable or harmless species, as the viceroy butterfly, to an unpalatable or dangerous species, as the monarch butterfly, that is usually avoided by predators. Cf. Müllerian mimicry. [after Henry Walter Bates (1825-92), English naturalist, who described such mimicry in 1861; see -IAN] |
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