"designer baby" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: designer babies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} designer baby (plural designer babies)
  1. A child whose genotype, and thus physical characteristics and susceptibility to hereditary disease, is selected by its parents. Wikipedia link: designer baby Categories (topical): Genetics Translations (A child whose genotype, and thus physical characteristics and susceptibility to hereditary disease, is selected by its parents): デザイナーベビー (dezainābebī) (Japanese), デザイナーチャイルド (dezaināchairudo) (Japanese), 맞춤아기 (matchumagi) (Korean), 맞춤형아기 (matchumhyeong'agi) (Korean), ребёнок из проби́рки (rebjónok iz probírki) [masculine] (Russian)

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