simile

noun

Etymology: From Latin simile (“comparison, likeness, parallel”) (first attested 1393), originally from simile, neuter form of similis (“like, similar, resembling”). Compare English similar.

1. A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.

   “He made a simile of George the third to Nebuchadnezzar, and of the prince regent to Belshazzar, and insisted that the prince represented the latter in not paying much attention to what had happened to kings […]”

   “The second was a fancy, which amounts to a mania, for similes, strung together in endless lists, and derived as a rule from animals, vegetables, or minerals, especially from the Fauna and Flora of fancy.”

2. Similarity or resemblance to something else; likeness, similitude.
3. Something similar that's not a clone.