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noun

clone n.

(Biol.) A group of organisms derived from a single individual by some kind of asexual reproduction; used mostly of microorganisms such as bacteria and yeast.

Synonyms: clon.

(Biol.) An individual organism containing a genetic complement identical to that of another organism, produced by using the genetic material from the second animal in a non-sexual reproduction process.

Something virtually identical to another object.

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Etymology of 'Clone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clone" Quotes from Famous Books

... students; one, a better lighted apartment, being filled with the usual collection of casts—the Milo, the Fighting Gladiator, Apollo Belvidere, Venus de Medici, etc., etc.; the other being devoted to the uses of the life-class and its models. Not the nude. Whatever may have been clone in the studios, in the class-room it was always the draped model that posed —the old woman who washed for a living on the top floor, or one of her chubby children or buxom daughters, or perhaps the peddler who strayed in to sell his wares and left his head behind him on ten different canvases ...

— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith

Words linked to "Clone" : look-alike, ringer, double, colloquialism, dead ringer, being, copy, image, organism, re-create