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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

auto-mimicry en · NOUN

Etymology

From auto- + mimicry.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of automimicry.
    • This male auto-mimicry of stinging females is energetically costly and would be very unlikely to have evolved if it were not effective. 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 38:

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