clone
A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
Noun
- A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
- This new species is a clone of the mimosa plant.
- A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.
- […] each identified blastomere, and the clone of its descendant cells, plays a specific role in later development - 1985, Gunther S. Stent, David A. Weisblat, “Cell lineage in the development of invertebrate nervous...
- A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
- The computer manufacturer produced IBM PC clones in the 1990s.
- A person who is exactly like or very similar to another person, in terms of looks or behavior.
- Once, on a confident whim, I approached the group of popular girls in an attempt to broaden my circle. Their ringleader took one glance at my new Aeropostale T-shirt and whispered to her clones, “Yeah, Aero's definitely...
- A Castro clone.
- Some of me is clone, but a good part of me is still disco. - 1984 August 11, Martin, “Untitled cartoon (caption)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 7:
- By mid-1983, I had grown weary of reading literature by white gay men who fell, quite easily, into three camps: the incestuous literati of Manhattan and Fire Island, the San Francisco cropped-mustache-clones, and the...
- these are cultural categories. they change over time. new ones appear (the Leatherman is recent, the Bear very recent), old ones vanish (though individual aunties and clones are still to be found - arch-clone jimmy pike...
Origin
Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s.
Forms
Derived
agroclone binary clone clonability clonable clonal cloneable cloneless clonelike clonemate clone town clonewheel organ clonish clonism clonology clonotype Doom clone epiclone Euroclone Famiclone hemiclone holoclone IBM PC clone interclone meroclone
Verb
- To create a clone of.
- The scientists were able to clone a sheep.
- We cloned the database to perform some testing.