All 4 Uses of
clone
in
Oryx and Crake
- It was much cheaper than getting yourself cloned for spare parts a few wrinkles left to be ironed out there, as Jimmy's dad used to say — or keeping a for-harvest child or two stashed away in some illegal baby orchard.†
p. 23.8 *cloned = copied
- None of those little girls had ever seemed real to Jimmy they'd always struck him as digital clones — but for some reason Oryx was three-dimensional from the start.†
p. 90.2 *clones = copies
- It was either her or a clone.†
p. 182.5
- He was in a lineup; fingers pointed at him, faces scowled, while some rabid Bernice clone set fire to his undershorts.†
p. 215.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(clone as in: Can we clone it?) to make a copy of something -- especially a genetically identical copy created with technology
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(2)
(clone as in: It is a clone.) a copy of something -- especially an organism with identical genetics created through technology