/myooh lear"ee euhn, mu-, mi-/ , Ecol.
the resemblance in appearance of two or more unpalatable species, which are avoided by predators to a greater degree than any one of the species would be otherwise.
Also, Mullerian mimicry . Cf. Batesian mimicry .
[ after German-born Brazilian biologist Fritz Müller (1821-97), who described it in 1878; see -IAN ]