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say it: MIM-i-kree
mimicry is a noun meaning "the act of mimicking; imitative behavior". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the act of mimicking; imitative behavior
the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects; provides concealment and protection from predators
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mimicry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.