sematic

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sematic (adjective; Greek sema, sign): Functioning as a warning of danger, as signalling colors of insects, or disagreeable odors of certain poisonous or dangerous animals.

See also: allosematic, antiaposematic, aposematic, parasematic, pseudosematic, episematic, pseudepisematic, pseudaposematic