The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκλών“twig”
- English todayclone
Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
clone
Today it means: A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical. Full definition →
Ancient Greek κλών