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Mimic   /mˈɪmɪk/   Listen
verb
Mimic  v. t.  (past & past part. mimicked; pres. part. mimicking)  
1.
To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation. "The walk, the words, the gesture, could supply, The habit mimic, and the mien belie."
2.
(Biol.) To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.
Synonyms: To ape; imitate; counterfeit; mock.



noun
Mimic  n.  One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.



adjective
Mimical, Mimic  adj.  
1.
Imitative; mimetic. "Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes To imitate her." "Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical."
2.
Consisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures. "Mimic hootings."
3.
(Min.) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. Note: Mimic often implies something droll or ludicrous, and is less dignified than imitative.
Mimic beetle (Zool.), a beetle that feigns death when disturbed, esp. the species of Hister and allied genera.






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"Mimic" Quotes from Famous Books



... good," said Josephine, in whose mind the thought, whatever it was, seemed to be shaping itself with great rapidity. "Now, is he a mimic? Could he play a part ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford

... not come to her, but would receive her, her lip curled, and she bade him observe how in them every feeling, however small, was larger than the love for Gerard. "Well," said she, "I have not that excuse; so why mimic the pretty burgher's pride, the pride of all unlettered folk? I will go to them for Gerard's sake. Oh, how I ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade

... which we may observe on any twilight evening in the laurel copse, the dense clusters of pink-white bloom waited upon by soft-winged fluttering moths, and ever and anon celebrating its cordial spirit by a mimic display of pyrotechnics as the anthers hurl aloft their tiny showers ...
— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson

... indented and irregular shores, forms the most delightful region of the known earth, in all that relates to climate, productions, and physical formation, will be readily enough conceded by the traveller. The countries that border on this midland water, with their promontories buttressing a mimic ocean—their mountain-sides teeming with the picturesque of human life—their heights crowned with watch-towers—their rocky shelves consecrated by hermitages, and their unrivalled sheet dotted with sails, rigged, as it might be, expressly ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper

... florist's cunning could produce. Those who emerged from the deep woods of the lofty hill called the Dragon's Claw, could see in the tea-house garden a living copy of the landscape before them. There were mimic mountains, (ten feet high), and miniature hills veined by a tiny, path with dwarfed pine groves, and tiny bamboo clumps, and a patch of grass for meadow, and a valley just like the great gully of the mountains, ...
— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis


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