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Feb. 22, 2016

apatetic \ap-uh-TET-ik\ adjective 1. Zoology. assuming colors and forms that effect deceptive camouflage. Quotes In the following scheme Protective and Aggressive Resemblances are grouped with Mimicry under the first head of Apatetic Colours, because an animal is thus made to resemble some other species or some other object. -- Edward Bagnall Poulton, The Colours of Animals: Their Meaning and Use Especially Considered in the Case of Insects, 1890 Origin Apatetic stems from the Greek word apatētikós meaning "fallacious," drawing on the Greek verb apateúein, "to deceive." It entered English in the late 1800s.

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