sexual mimicry

noun

A phenomenon in which one sex takes the characteristics of the other within a single species.

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Meanings

nounsexual mimicry (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiologyA phenomenon in which one sex takes the characteristics of the other within a single species.
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