mimetic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mimetic
    adj 1: characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis; "a
           mimetic dance"; "the mimetic presentation of images"
    2: exhibiting mimicry; "mimetic coloring of a butterfly"; "the
       mimetic tendency of infancy"- R.W.Hamilton

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mimetic \Mi*met"ic\ (?; 277), Mimetical \Mi*met"ic*al\, [Gr. ?,
   fr. ? to imitate.]
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   1. Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.
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   2. (Biol.) Characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals
      and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms. See
      {Mimicry}.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "mimetic":
      apish, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, emulative,
      figurative, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative,
      imitative, incarnating, limning, mimic, mimish, onomatopoeic,
      onomatopoetic, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying,
      representational, representative, representing, simulative,
      symbolizing, typifying, vivid

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