clone

Meanings

Noun

• A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
• A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.
• A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
• Two people who are exactly alike, as far as looks or behavior.

Verb

• To create a clone of.

Origin

• Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών. Figurative use from the 1970s.