The mimetic shape and coloring of a walking stick insect causes it to blend into its surroundings.    From LearnThat.org. 

mimetic coloring of a butterfly.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A mimetic dance.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

High mimetic is not a phase but a heroic register (and one we might well argue turns romance into epic and horror into tragedy).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theory of Modes and Modalities] Reference

Some of the ads were the buildings themselves (it's called mimetic architecture).    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News] Reference

In English these are called mimetic words, or a mimesis, but who knows what that means anyway?.    From Wordnik.com.  [JapanNewbie] Reference

Next time, I'm planning to investigate the notion of mimetic desire - unless there's anywhere else you'd rather visit first.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Low mimetic is likewise a non-heroic register, a register of realism in the representation of an individual’s relationship to society.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theory of Modes and Modalities] Reference

But this does not in reality differ from the Aristotelian mimetic, which is concerned, not only with the real, but also with the possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

I think you still need a word other than 'mimetic' for those.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Mimetic Fiction"] Reference

Does his self-dramatization mean that the way to disentangle his mysteries is through some kind of mimetic first-person device?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Untangling Charlie Kaufman] Reference

At any rate, the anonymity was a kind of mimetic bow on the piece the author of the game within the game was also anonymous, although certainly not meek!.    From Wordnik.com.  […is typing. | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference

I see your point, but I somehow doubt that it will be possible to wean SF academics off using "mimetic" to mean what they have been using it to mean for years.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Mimetic Fiction"] Reference

That is another kind of mimetic magic expressed by the term nazoraeru.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things] Reference

Janzen adds that almost all caterpillars that live in this Central American region are visually "mimetic" of something.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

I am glad to hear that you have specially attended to "mimetic" analogies -- a most curious subject; I hope you publish on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

Bundled with the mini-game selection EyeToy Play it was a big hit, introducing the concept of accessible "mimetic" interfaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

'mimetic' instincts: 'imitative' (in a sense I shall presently explain); even as No. (2) -- acting -- like No. (1) -- talking and listening -- comes of craving for sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Art of Reading] Reference

The mimetic seal around the rim softens and retracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Perhaps the germs of mimetic art may be looked for in this dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

This theory is applied to massive sculpture and mimetic painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [CREATIVITY IN ART] Reference

The following are some of the mimetic dances which I have witnessed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference

Twelfth Night gives us another perspective on theatre as mimetic illusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

Their views diverge sharply as regards the nature and value of mimetic art.    From Wordnik.com.  [CREATIVITY IN ART] Reference

They may be bitter rivals, but theirs has become a symbiotic, mimetic rivalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seery: Busted Bamboozlability: Bush Has Lost the War on Terrorism] Reference

Clarke spins the wheel; the hatch sinks down against the mimetic seal with a sigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Was it from the beginning an aestheticized, non-mimetic fashioning of a personality?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sontag on Sontag] Reference

René Girard has called this violently spiraling kind of thinking "mimetic rivalry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seery: Testicles] Reference

British jihadis are mimetic, just as British Movement bootboys were mimetic neo-Nazis.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

However, neither mimetic art nor craft is the sole product of technē which is possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [CREATIVITY IN ART] Reference

The failure of the literal and its inevitable absorption into the mimetic and metaphorical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defence of Poesie] Reference

These plants are sometimes incredibly mimetic of stones, probably as an anti-herbivore defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Andean steppe] Reference

At the same time the creative character of poetry and art was stressed against older, mimetic theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The various positions were defined by rule; hands and arms played an important part in the mimetic action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The mimetic tradition was alive and well, but now it was in the service of cultural transformation rather than conservation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education of Jewish Girls in the United States.] Reference

They do have, to be sure, a certain mimetic impressiveness as mere sounds; but that is very vague; the meaning makes it specific.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference

Once born, this worldview might spread to and effect even cultures that are not in such dire straights — a sort of mimetic virus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Origin of Sin] Reference