clone
noun [C] /kləʊn/
/kloʊn/ Definition
› a plant or animal that has the same genes as the original from which it was producedGeneticsInnate and congenital › informal disapproving someone or something that looks very much like someone or something else: Most people saw her as just another blond-haired, red-lipped Marilyn Monroe clone.Describing people with the same qualitiesSimilar and the same › specialized a computer that operates in a very similar way to the one that it was copied fromComputer concepts
(Definition of clone noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a chip off the old block idiom
- a meeting of minds idiom
- be cast in the same mould idiom
- be of like mind idiom
- be of the same mind idiom
- be the spitting image of sb idiom
- birds of a feather flock together idiom
- birds of a feather idiom
- common noun (SHARED)
- dead ringer noun
- doppelgänger noun
- double noun (PERSON)
- fellow adjective
- like noun
- like two peas in a pod idiom
- like-minded adjective
- look-alike noun
- match noun (EQUAL)
- soulmate noun
- step noun (FOOT MOVEMENT)
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