Batesian Mimicry Definition

bātsē-ən
noun
A kind of mimicry in which one species, to make itself less vulnerable to a particular predator, imitates the structure and coloration of another species that is unpalatable, difficult to capture, etc.
Webster's New World
A form of protective mimicry, especially in insects, in which a species that is palatable or harmless closely resembles an unpalatable or harmful species and therefore is avoided by predators.
American Heritage Medicine
pronoun

The resemblance of one or more non-poisonous species to a poisonous species, for example, the scarlet king snake and the coral snake.

Wiktionary

Origin of Batesian Mimicry

  • After Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), British naturalist

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Named for Henry Walter Bates

    From Wiktionary

Batesian Mimicry Sentence Examples

  • If the view that the sole is protected by the blackness of the pectoral fin resembling the blackness of the dorsal fin of the weever, be correct, these fishes furnish an instance of Batesian mimicry.

  • This is a not uncommon occurrence, and in the case of Batesian mimicry the explanation is probably this.

  • Pseudaposemasy is Batesian mimicry.

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