(~s, reproducing, ~d)
1.
If you try to ~ something, you try to copy it.
I shall not try to ~ the policemen’s English...
The effect has proved hard to ~.
VERB: V n, V n
2.
If you ~ a picture, speech, or a piece of writing, you make a photograph or printed copy of it.
We are grateful to you for permission to ~ this article.
VERB: V n
3.
If you ~ an action or an achievement, you repeat it.
If we can ~ the form we have shown in the last couple of months we will be successful.
= repeat
VERB: V n
4.
When people, animals, or plants ~, they produce young.
...a society where women are defined by their ability to ~...
We are reproducing ourselves at such a rate that our numbers threaten the ecology of the planet.
VERB: V, V pron-refl
reproduction
Genes are those tiny bits of biological information swapped in sexual reproduction.
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