词根词缀：clon-, clono-, -cloner, -clonal, -clonally

【来源及含义】Greek: twig; later, in modern usage: "exact duplicate, carbon copy, replica"

【相关描述】As early as 1903, it pertained to plants, borrowed from Greek "twig"; related to "vine, branch, sprout", and "to break". The figurative extension "exact duplicate, carbon copy, replica" is first recorded around 1978.

【同源单词】clon, clonal, clonality, clone, cloner, cloning