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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
meme /miːm/

▶noun Biology a cultural or behavioural element passed on by imitation or other non-genetic means.

– derivatives
memetic adjective.

– origin 1970s: from Gk mimēma ‘that which is imitated’, on the pattern of gene.

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