"clone" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kloʊn/ [General-American], /kləʊn/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-clone.ogg [US] Forms: clones [plural]
enPR: klōn [Received-Pronunciation] Rhymes: -əʊn Etymology: Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|κλών||twig}} Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} clone (plural clones)
  1. A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical. Translations (living organism (originally a plant)): clon [masculine] (Asturian), clon [masculine] (Catalan), 克隆 (kèlóng) (Chinese Mandarin), 複製 (Chinese Mandarin), 复制 (fùzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), kloon (Dutch), klooni (Finnish), clone [masculine] (French), clon [masculine] (Galician), Klon [masculine] (German), κλώνος (klónos) [masculine] (Greek), klón (Hungarian), klona (Indonesian), clone [masculine] (Italian), クローン (kurōn) (Japanese), клон (klon) (Kazakh), 클론 (keullon) (Korean), klon (Malay), clone [masculine] (Portuguese), clonă [feminine] (Romanian), clon [neuter] (Romanian), клон (klon) [masculine] (Russian), clon [masculine] (Spanish), klon [common-gender] (Swedish), klon (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-clone-en-noun-6~fHC-rU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 24 11 10 8 19 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 31 21 16 8 7 18 Disambiguation of 'living organism (originally a plant)': 89 5 2 2 3
  2. (cytology) A group of identical cells derived from a single cell. Categories (topical): Cytology Translations (group of identical cells derived from a single cell): клон (klon) [masculine] (Bulgarian), clon [masculine] (Catalan), 克隆 (kèlóng) (Chinese Mandarin), 複製 (Chinese Mandarin), 复制 (fùzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), kloon (Dutch), klooni (Finnish), clone [masculine] (French), clon [masculine] (Galician), Klone [masculine, plural] (German), κλώνος (klónos) [masculine] (Greek), klona (Indonesian), клон (klon) (Kazakh), klon (Malay), سانیز (Persian), clone [masculine] (Portuguese), klon [common-gender] (Swedish), klon (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-clone-en-noun-bVHdpjwE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 24 11 10 8 19 Topics: biology, cytology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'group of identical cells derived from a single cell': 13 83 1 3 1
  3. A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it. Translations (copy of something already existing): 複製 (Chinese Mandarin), 复制 (fùzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), kloon (Dutch), klooni (Finnish), clone [masculine] (French), Klon [humorous, masculine] (German), κλώνος (klónos) [masculine] (Greek), klono (Ido), klona (Indonesian), clone [masculine] (Italian), クローン (kurōn) (Japanese), klon (Malay), pūrua (Maori), سانیز (Persian), klon [masculine] (Polish), clone [masculine] (Portuguese), клон (klon) [masculine] (Russian), ко́пия (kópija) [feminine] (Russian), klon [common-gender] (Swedish), kopia [common-gender] (Swedish), klon (Turkish), kopya (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-clone-en-noun-LflJHydm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 24 11 10 8 19 Disambiguation of 'copy of something already existing': 7 3 85 3 1
  4. (informal) A person who is exactly like or very similar to another person, in terms of looks or behavior. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-clone-en-noun-T1j4QqfW
  5. (LGBT, slang) A Castro clone. Tags: slang Categories (topical): LGBT
    Sense id: en-clone-en-noun-yNenSwAE Topics: LGBT, lifestyle, sexuality
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb

IPA: /kloʊn/ [General-American], /kləʊn/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-clone.ogg [US] Forms: clones [present, singular, third-person], cloning [participle, present], cloned [participle, past], cloned [past]
enPR: klōn [Received-Pronunciation] Rhymes: -əʊn Etymology: Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|κλών||twig}} Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} clone (third-person singular simple present clones, present participle cloning, simple past and past participle cloned)
  1. (transitive) To create a clone of. Tags: transitive Derived forms: reclone Translations (create a clone): clonar (Asturian), клонирам (kloniram) (Bulgarian), clonar (Catalan), 克隆 (kèlóng) (Chinese Mandarin), 複製 (Chinese Mandarin), 复制 (fùzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), klonovat (Czech), klonen (Dutch), kloonata (Finnish), cloner (French), clonar (Galician), klonen (German), κλωνοποιώ (klonopoió) [active] (Greek), κλωνοποιούμαι (klonopoioúmai) (english: passive voice) (Greek), clonare (Italian), クローンを作る (kurōn wo tsukeru) (Japanese), whakapūrua (Maori), سانیزدن (Persian), klonować [imperfective] (Polish), sklonować [perfective] (Polish), clonar (Portuguese), clona (Romanian), клони́ровать (klonírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), клонирати [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), klonirati [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), klonovať (Slovak), clonar (Spanish), klona (Swedish), โคลน (kloon) (Thai), klonlamak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-clone-en-verb-Bs3AejKE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 24 11 10 8 19

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2017, Allyson Kennedy, Can't Beat the Heart of a Carolina Girl",
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          "ref": "1984 August 11, Martin, “Untitled cartoon (caption)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 7",
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          "ref": "1991 August 31, Arnold M. Zwicky, “What the hell is a TWINKIE?”, in soc.motss (Usenet)",
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        "LGBT",
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        "sexuality"
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          "ref": "1984 August 11, Martin, “Untitled cartoon (caption)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 7",
          "text": "Some of me is clone, but a good part of me is still disco.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 August 31, Arnold M. Zwicky, “What the hell is a TWINKIE?”, in soc.motss (Usenet)",
          "text": "these are cultural categories. they change over time. new ones appear (the Leatherman is recent, the Bear very recent), old ones vanish (though individual aunties and clones are still to be found - arch-clone jimmy pike is still making videos and keeping his stomach muscles in great shape - the Auntie and the Clone as generally recognized categories are no longer with us).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Richard Vytniorgu, “Effeminate Gay Bottoms in the West”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 70, number 10, page 2113",
          "text": "Since the Second World War and the rise of the middle-class “clone gay” in the US and a similar move away from homosexual effeminacy in Britain—often rooted in working class culture—gender nonconforming or effeminate gay males have been edged out of mainstream understandings of what it means to be gay.",
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        }
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          "LGBT"
        ],
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          "Castro clone",
          "Castro clone"
        ]
      ],
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        "(LGBT, slang) A Castro clone."
      ],
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        "slang"
      ],
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        "LGBT",
        "lifestyle",
        "sexuality"
      ]
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      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
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        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
    {
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      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kèlóng",
      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "word": "克隆"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "word": "複製"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fùzhì",
      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "word": "复制"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
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    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
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    {
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
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      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clon"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Klon"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "klónos",
      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
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    },
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      "code": "id",
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      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "word": "klona"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clone"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
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    },
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      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "klon",
      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
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    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
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      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "word": "클론"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "word": "klon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
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      ],
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    {
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    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "клон"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "living organism (originally a plant)",
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        "masculine"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "code": "tr",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "group of identical cells derived from a single cell",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clon"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kèlóng",
      "sense": "group of identical cells derived from a single cell",
      "word": "克隆"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "group of identical cells derived from a single cell",
      "word": "複製"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fùzhì",
      "sense": "group of identical cells derived from a single cell",
      "word": "复制"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "group of identical cells derived from a single cell",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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    {
      "code": "fr",
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    {
      "code": "gl",
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      "sense": "group of identical cells derived from a single cell",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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    {
      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
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    {
      "code": "el",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "id",
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      "code": "ms",
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    {
      "code": "fa",
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      "word": "سانیز"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "cmn",
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    {
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      "roman": "fùzhì",
      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
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      "word": "kloon"
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      "code": "fi",
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    },
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      "code": "fr",
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        "masculine"
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      "code": "de",
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        "masculine"
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    {
      "code": "el",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
      "code": "io",
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    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "word": "klona"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clone"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "word": "クローン"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "word": "klon"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "word": "pūrua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "word": "سانیز"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "klon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clone"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "klon",
      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "клон"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kópija",
      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "klon"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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    },
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      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "copy of something already existing",
      "word": "klon"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
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      "word": "kopya"
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  ],
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}

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    "English terms with audio links",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "English verbs",
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      "code": "ast",
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      "sense": "create a clone",
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      "sense": "create a clone",
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "word": "复制"
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      "code": "fi",
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    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
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    },
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      "code": "gl",
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      "code": "el",
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "clonare"
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    {
      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "create a clone",
      "word": "クローンを作る"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "create a clone",
      "word": "whakapūrua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "create a clone",
      "word": "سانیزدن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "create a clone",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "create a clone",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "create a clone",
      "word": "clonar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "create a clone",
      "word": "clona"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "klonírovatʹ",
      "sense": "create a clone",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "клони́ровать"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "create a clone",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "create a clone",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
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      "word": "klonirati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "create a clone",
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    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
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      "word": "clonar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "create a clone",
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    },
    {
      "code": "th",
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "create a clone",
      "word": "klonlamak"
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  ],
  "word": "clone"
}

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