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reproduction

re.pro.duc.tion \.re--pr*-'d*k-sh*n\ n 1: the act or process of 
   reproducing; specif : 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 ODUCTION implies an exact or 
   close imitation of an existing thing; DUPLICATE implies a double or 
   counterpart exactly corresponding to another thing; COPY applies to one of 
   a number of things reproduced mechanically as from the same type format, 
   die, or mold; FACSIMILE suggests a close reproduction in the same materials 
   that may differ in scale; REPLICA applies strictly to an exact reproduction 
   of a work of art made by the same artist and not clearly distinguishable 
   from the original SYN syn DUPLICATE, COPY, FACSIMILE, REPLICA: REPR