clonenoun/kloʊn/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  biologycytologymedicineA 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
• 3

  A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.

  • The computer manufacturer produced IBM PC clones in the 1990s.
• 4

  informalA 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.”
• 5

  slangA 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.

cloneverb/kloʊn/

• 1

  To create a clone of.

  • The scientists were able to clone a sheep.
  • We cloned the database to perform some testing.