REPRODUCTIVE CLONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reproductive cloning mean? 

• REPRODUCTIVE CLONING (noun)
  The noun REPRODUCTIVE CLONING has 1 sense:

1. making a full living copy of an organism; requires a surrogate mother

  Familiarity information: REPRODUCTIVE CLONING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPRODUCTIVE CLONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Making a full living copy of an organism; requires a surrogate mother

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("reproductive cloning" is a kind of...):

cloning (a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reproductive cloning"):

human reproductive cloning (the reproductive cloning of a sentient human being; generally considered ethically unacceptable)