adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A mimetic butterfly is one that resembles another kind of butterfly-usually a poisonous one.
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And, conversely, does mimetic illusionism-the anthropomorphic statue-always fail as art?
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For example, does the precision of mimetic patterns in butterflies reflect the degree of protection they confer.
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In addition, hosts in sympatry were less likely to reject a mimetic model egg than a non-mimetic one.
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Indeed Bratby's and Diebenkorn's works are stylistically closer to Expressionism than to mimetic realism.
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Nathalie Sarraute's novels could be claimed to display autonomy and reflexivity, despite her preoccupation with such a mimetic project.
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No, M' lud, we hold that it would have an emetic, not a mimetic , effect on any reader.
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The Formalists evaluate literary form for its perceptibility and not for its mimetic capacity.