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Clone   /kloʊn/   Listen
Clone

noun
1.
A person who is almost identical to another.  Synonyms: dead ringer, ringer.
2.
A group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction.  Synonym: clon.
3.
An unauthorized copy or imitation.  Synonym: knockoff.






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"Clone" Quotes from Famous Books



... variety we are using is not a variety, it's a clone. Maybe we had better get together with taxonomists and botanists. That's all they are, selections, they are not varieties, in the botanical sense, even though the term has been badly misused by the nut growers. I don't see why we should continue with mis-application of a term just because somebody ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting • Various

... to Him, and the other set will be the people that do not belong to Him. Then He will welcome the first set, and bless them, because they have done things to the poor and miserable such as they would have liked to have done to themselves. And He will say 'Inasmuch as ye have clone it to one of the least of these, ye have done it unto Me.' " Daisy's eyes were full of water ...
— Melbourne House • Elizabeth Wetherell

... the reply. "But nothing can be clone about looking into the future now. It requires rigid fasting from early dawn, and I ate the dates you brought me. I inhaled the odor of the roasting ducks, too, and then—it must be done at midnight; and at midnight your people ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers



Words linked to "Clone" :   re-create, look-alike, double, being, image, colloquialism, organism, dead ringer, copy



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