clone

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A copy of something made to look or work just like the original.

   The company sold cheap clones of the popular phone.

2. 2
   noun

   A plant or animal created from a single cell so that it is genetically identical to its parent.

   Scientists produced the first cloned sheep in 1996.

3. 3
   verb

   To make an exact copy of a living thing or an object.

   Researchers managed to clone the sheep successfully.

Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s.

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