Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis;
- Example: "a mimetic dance"- Example: "the mimetic presentation of images"2.
exhibiting mimicry;
- Example: "mimetic coloring of a butterfly"- Example: "the mimetic tendency of infancy"- R.W.Hamilton
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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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
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