CLONE


Meaning of CLONE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kloʊn ]

( clones, cloning, cloned)

1.

If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.

Designers are mistaken if they believe we all want to be supermodel clones.

N-COUNT : usu with supp

2.

A clone is an animal or plant that has been produced artificially, for example in a laboratory, from the cells of another animal or plant. A clone is exactly the same as the original animal or plant.

N-COUNT

3.

To clone an animal or plant means to produce it as a clone.

The idea of cloning extinct life forms still belongs to science fiction.

VERB : V n

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