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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Bates′i•an mim′icry (bāt′sē ən),USA pronunciation [Ecol.]- Ecologythe protective resemblance in appearance of a palatable or harmless species, as the viceroy butterfly, to an unpalatable or dangerous species, as the monarch butterfly, that is usually avoided by predators. Cf. Müllerian mimicry.
- see -ian after Henry Walter Bates (1825–92), English naturalist, who described such mimicry in 1861
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