CLONE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Clone

Listen

noun

clone n.

(Biol.) A group of organisms derived from a single individual by some kind of asexual reproduction; used mostly of microorganisms such as bacteria and yeast.

Synonyms: clon.

(Biol.) An individual organism containing a genetic complement identical to that of another organism, produced by using the genetic material from the second animal in a non-sexual reproduction process.

Something virtually identical to another object.

See images of 'Clone'

Etymology of 'Clone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Clone" Quotes from Famous Books

... contrariety to everything hitherto heard of, as any of our voyagers and travellers of discovery have been by the barbarous tribes who had never before seen civilized man, or as the Spaniards on their arrival in Mexico or Peru. They might, as the voyagers have clone, experience every local difference of moral temperament, from that which hailed them with acclamations, to that which often exploded in a volley of mud and stones; but through all these varieties of greetings, there was a strong sense of something ...

— An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance • John Foster

... 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 ...

— Melbourne House • Elizabeth Wetherell

Words linked to "Clone" : copy, re-create, organism, knockoff, double, image