mimic's Usage Examples:

Prior to lopping off his famous locks for a more mature and sophisticated and tapered shape, Justin Bieber rocked the stage with floppy shaggy hair that seemed to mimic a Beatles bowl cut.

A unique system which accurately mimics multistage tumor progression.

NAUMACHIA, the Greek word denoting a naval battle (Pais, ship, and,uaXrl, battle), used by the Romans as a term for a mimic sea-fight.

Neither of the above-mentioned animals is mimicked; but where two or more noxious animals, inhabiting the same district, resemble each other, both being aposematically or warningly coloured, the likeness is said to be " synaposematic.

stop," he mimicked in falsetto.

chomped a handful of leaf mimics shouting out " when I get back to London my management are dead!They laugh when we pick the legs and heads off the prawns, instead just chomping them down whole.

If the view that the sole is protected by the blackness of the pectoral fin resembling the blackness of the dorsal fin of the weever, be correct, these fishes furnish an instance of Batesian mimicry.

Carmen mimicked him and pointed to both of them.

The hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose with such exactitude that Nesvitski could not help laughing.

Another species of this group, the black cuckoo of India, apparently mimics the black drongo-shrike (Dicrurus ater), the resemblance between the two species being very close.

The difference between the two phenomena is essential and evident; but without experimental information as to palatability it is impossible to know with certainty to which of the two a particular case of mimicry is to be assigned.

Synonyms:

imitative,

Antonyms:

sincere, nonimitative,