1 (biology) a plant or an animal that is produced artificially from the cells of another plant or animal and is therefore exactly the same as it
2 (sometimes disapproving) a person or thing that seems to be an exact copy of another:
Caroline's brothers grinned alongside her, clones of their father.
3 (computing) a computer designed to work in exactly the same way as another, usually one made by a different company and more expensive
verb [VN] to produce an exact copy of an animal or a plant from its cells:
A team from the UK were the first to successfully clone an animal. * Dolly, the cloned sheep
cloning noun [U]
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