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Batesian mimicry
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English
Etymology
Named for Henry Walter Bates.
Noun
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en biology The resemblance of one or more non-poisonous species to a poisonous species, for example, the scarlet king snake and the coral snake.
Translations
resemblance of a non-poisonous species to a poisonous one
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 貝氏擬態 bèishìnǐtài
Finnish: fi Batesin mimikry
French: fr mimétisme de Bates m
Portuguese: pt mimetismo batesiano m
Russian: ru мимикри́я Бе́йтса f mimikríja Bɛ́jtsa, ru бе́йтсовская мимикри́я f bɛ́jtsovskaja mimikríja
Spanish: es mimetismo batesiano m
See also
Compare with en Müllerian mimicry.
en eponyms
en Ecology Evolutionary theory