clone
noun/kləʊn/
/kləʊn/
- (biology) a plant or an animal that is produced naturally or artificially from the cells of another plant or animal and is therefore exactly the same as itTopics Biologyc1
- (sometimes disapproving) a person or thing that seems to be an exact copy of another
- Caroline’s brothers grinned alongside her, clones of their father.
- (computing) a computer that is a copy of another more expensive model
- Once they found that the PC clones were just as good, companies saved a lot.
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from Greek klōn ‘twig’.
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