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• klōn
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• General-American: /kloʊn/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kləʊn/
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• rhymes with -əʊn
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• CMU ARPABET: K L OW1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s.

103 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: كْلُون (klūn) — living organism (originally a plant)
• Armenian: կլոն (klon) — living organism (originally a plant)
• Asturian: clon — living organism (originally a plant)
• Catalan: clon — living organism (originally a plant)
• Chinese Mandarin: 克隆 (kèlóng) — living organism (originally a plant)
• Chinese Mandarin: 複製 /复制 (fùzhì) — living organism (originally a plant)
• Dutch: kloon — living organism (originally a plant)
• Esperanto: klono — living organism (originally a plant)
• Finnish: klooni — living organism (originally a plant)
• French: clone — living organism (originally a plant)
• Galician: clon — living organism (originally a plant)
• Georgian: კლონი (ḳloni) — living organism (originally a plant)
• German: Klon — living organism (originally a plant)
• Greek: κλώνος (klónos) — living organism (originally a plant)
• Hungarian: klón — living organism (originally a plant)
• Indonesian: klona — living organism (originally a plant)
• Italian: clone — living organism (originally a plant)
• Japanese: クローン (kurōn) — living organism (originally a plant)
• Kazakh: клон (klon) — living organism (originally a plant)
• Korean: 클론 (keullon) — living organism (originally a plant)
• Malay: klon — living organism (originally a plant)
• Persian: همسانه (hamsāne) — living organism (originally a plant)
• Portuguese: clone — living organism (originally a plant)
• Romanian: clonă — living organism (originally a plant)
• Romanian: clon — living organism (originally a plant)
• Russian: клон (klon) — living organism (originally a plant)
• Spanish: clon — living organism (originally a plant)
• Swedish: klon — living organism (originally a plant)
• Thai: โคลน (kloon) — living organism (originally a plant)
• Turkish: klon — living organism (originally a plant)
• Vietnamese: bản sao — living organism (originally a plant)
• Arabic: مُسْتَنْسَخ (mustansaḵ) — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Bulgarian: клон (klon) — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Catalan: clon — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Chinese Mandarin: 克隆 (kèlóng) — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Chinese Mandarin: 複製 /复制 (fùzhì) — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Dutch: kloon — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Finnish: klooni — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• French: clone — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Galician: clon — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• German: Klone — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Greek: κλώνος (klónos) — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Indonesian: klona — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Kazakh: клон (klon) — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Malay: klon — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Persian: سانیز — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Portuguese: clone — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Swedish: klon — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Turkish: klon — group of identical cells derived from a single cell
• Arabic: مُسْتَنْسَخ (mustansaḵ) — copy of something already existing
• Chinese Mandarin: 複製 /复制 (fùzhì) — copy of something already existing
• Dutch: kloon — copy of something already existing
• Esperanto: klono — copy of something already existing
• Finnish: klooni — copy of something already existing
• French: clone — copy of something already existing
• German: Klon — copy of something already existing
• Greek: κλώνος (klónos) — copy of something already existing
• Ido: klono — copy of something already existing
• Indonesian: klona — copy of something already existing
• Italian: clone — copy of something already existing
• Japanese: クローン (kurōn) — copy of something already existing
• Malay: klon — copy of something already existing
• Māori: pūrua — copy of something already existing
• Persian: سانیز — copy of something already existing
• Polish: klon — copy of something already existing
• Portuguese: clone — copy of something already existing
• Russian: клон (klon) — copy of something already existing
• Russian: ко́пия (kópija) — copy of something already existing
• Slovak: klon — copy of something already existing
• Swedish: klon — copy of something already existing
• Swedish: kopia — copy of something already existing
• Turkish: klon — copy of something already existing
• Turkish: kopya — copy of something already existing
• Asturian: clonar — create a clone
• Bulgarian: клонирам (kloniram) — create a clone
• Catalan: clonar — create a clone
• Chinese Mandarin: 克隆 (kèlóng) — create a clone
• Chinese Mandarin: 複製 /复制 (fùzhì) — create a clone
• Czech: klonovat — create a clone
• Dutch: klonen — create a clone
• Esperanto: kloni — create a clone
• Finnish: kloonata — create a clone
• French: cloner — create a clone
• Galician: clonar — create a clone
• German: klonen — create a clone
• Greek: κλωνοποιώ (klonopoió) — create a clone
• Greek: κλωνοποιούμαι (klonopoioúmai) — create a clone
• Italian: clonare — create a clone
• Japanese: クローンを作る (kurōn wo tsukeru) — create a clone
• Māori: whakapūrua — create a clone
• Persian: سانیزدن — create a clone
• Polish: klonować — create a clone
• Polish: sklonować — create a clone
• Portuguese: clonar — create a clone
• Romanian: clona — create a clone
• Russian: клони́ровать (klonírovatʹ) — create a clone
• Serbo-Croatian: клонирати — create a clone
• Serbo-Croatian: klonirati — create a clone
• Slovak: klonovať — create a clone
• Spanish: clonar — create a clone
• Swedish: klona — create a clone
• Thai: โคลน (kloon) — create a clone
• Turkish: klonlamak — create a clone