mimicry

mimicry

English

Alternative forms

• mimickry

Etymology

From mimic +‎ -ry.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪm.ɪk.ɹi/

Noun

mimicry (countable and uncountable, plural mimicries)

1. An act or ability to simulate or effect the appearance of someone or something else.

   They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me.

   When animal mimicry goes really wrong they don't just look like something that a predator would ignore, they look like lunch.

Translations

the act or ability to simulate the appearance of someone or something else

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: мимикрия (bg) f (mimikrija) Catalan: mimetisme (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 擬態／拟态 (zh) (nǐtài), 模仿 (zh) (mófǎng) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: mimiikka (fi), jäljittely (fi) French: mimétisme (fr) m, mimique (fr) f German: Mimikry (de) f, Nachahmung (de) f Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: अनुकरण (hi) m (anukraṇ) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Irish: aithriseoireacht f, athmhagadh m Italian: mimetismo (it) m, scimmiottatura f, scimmiottamento m, mimica (it) f, (zoology, botany) mimetizzazione f Japanese: 擬態 (ja) (ぎたい, gitai) Kazakh: қорғаныш рең (qorğanyş reñ) Khmer: ការធ្វើត្រាប់តាម (kaa thvəə trap taam) Korean: 흉내 (ko) (hyungnae), 입내 (imnae) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Malayalam: മിമിക്രി (mimikri), ശബ്ദാനുകരണം (śabdānukaraṇaṃ) Persian: میمیک‎ (fa) (mimik) Polish: naśladownictwo (pl) n Portuguese: mímica (pt) f, mimetismo (pt) m (biology) Russian: подража́ние (ru) n (podražánije), мими́крия (ru) f (mimíkrija) Swedish: mimikry (sv) c Tagalog: gagad Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: öyküntü (tr), taklit (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• crypsis
• imitation
• mimicry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia