Reproduction



GRE TOEFL

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 生殖; 复制
• ［英］ n. 生殖 ( plants and animals give rise to offspring) ; 复制 ( something reproduced; copy)
• ［例］ a fine reproduction of the original

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Date: 1659
• 1. the act or process of reproducing; specifically the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring and which fundamentally consists of the segregation of a portion of the parental body by a sexual or an asexual process and its subsequent growth and differentiation into a new individual
• 2. something reproduced ; copy
• 3. young seedling trees in a forest
• Synonyms:
  • ~, duplicate, copy, facsimile, replica mean a thing made to closely resemble another. ~ implies an exact or close imitation of an existing thing zuoxie~s from the museum's furniture collectionyouxie. duplicate implies a double or counterpart exactly corresponding to another thing zuoxiea duplicate of a house keyyouxie. copy applies especially to one of a number of things reproduced mechanically zuoxieprinted 1000 copies of the lithographyouxie. facsimile suggests a close ~ often of graphic matter that may differ in scale zuoxiea facsimile of a rare bookyouxie. replica implies the exact ~ of a particular item in all details zuoxiea replica of the Mayfloweryouxie but not always in the same scale zuoxieminiature replicas of classic carsyouxie.

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