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clone

/kləʊn/

An illustration for clone

verb1 of 2

to make an exact copy of a living thing

  • “I wonder if a human will ever be cloned.”Tatoeba
  • “Creating a digital clone of someone's voice is now easier than ever.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

noun2 of 2

A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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