nnoun.acta general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell)Hypernyms:biological research
Inherited Hypernyms:cloningbiological researchscientific researchresearchinvestigationworkactivityacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:biomedical cloningreproductive cloningtherapeutic cloning
Full Hyponyms:human reproductive cloningreproductive cloningtherapeutic cloning
vverb.creationmake multiple identical copies ofExamples:- people can clone a sheep nowadays
Derivationally Related Form:clone
Hypernyms:copy re-create
Inherited Hypernyms:clonecopymake
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody