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In some senses, clone is marked as informal, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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.
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 out now.”
A Castro clone.
Some of me is clone, but a good part of me is still disco.
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 Boston-to-Cambridge politically correct radical faggots.
verb
To create a clone of.
The scientists were able to clone a sheep.
We cloned the database to perform some testing.