mimics's Usage Examples:

A unique system which accurately mimics multistage tumor progression.

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.

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.

Into another category Hymenoptera enter not as models but as mimics, the models being inedible Malacodermatous beetles mostly belonging to the genus Lycus and characterized by orange coloration set off by a large black patch upon the posterior end of the elytra and a smaller black spot upon the thorax.

Just the same as you would likely consider when shopping for an actual down comforter, it is important to choose an alternative comforter that mimics the warmth and fluffiness of the real thing.

With the exception of the Asilid fly and perhaps some of the Longicorn and Phytophagous beetles, which are probably protected Batesian mimics, all the other species constituting the above-mentioned assemblage are, it is believed, Mullerian or synaposematic mimics.

DAP mimics the properties of the natural appeasing pheromones of bitch.

A specimen of another butterfly (Precis sesamus) which mimics the Acraea was then offered in the same manner.

This type of sewing mimics the French style of the early 1800s.

Researchers have reported a powerful healing effect on mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, which mimics the symptoms of MS.

The blades include a stainless steel multipurpose one for large chopping, mixing and pureeing jobs, a mini stainless steel blade for the four-cup bowl and a plastic dough blade that mimics hand kneading of yeast dough.

For example, a person suffering from a cold may ingest an herbal substance that mimics the symptoms of the cold, although the substance will typically be greatly diluted.

Synonyms:

imitative,

Antonyms:

sincere, nonimitative,