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Clone vs Clote - What's the difference?

clone | clote |

As a verb clone

is .

As a noun clote is

(obsolete) the common burdock; the clotbur.

clone

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
  • A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
  • A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.[http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2754]

    • Derived terms

    * holoclone * meroclone * paraclone * polyclone

    Verb

    (clon)
  • To create a clone.

    • References

    * C.L. Pollard. "'Clon' versus 'clone'". Science (new series) 22:469, 1905. * C.L. Pollard. "On the spelling of 'clon'". Science (new series) 22:87-88, 1905. * W.T. Stearn. "The use of the term 'clone'". Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 74:41-47, 1949. ----

    clote

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.
  • * 1380s , , 9, vi,
    • A nettle schal enherite the desirable siluer of hem, a clote schal be in the tabernaclis of hem.
  • * 14thC', '', '''1987 , Larry Dean Benson (editor), ''The Riverside Chaucer , 2008, 3rd Edition, page 270,
    • A clote -leef he hadde under his hood / For swoot and for to keep his heed from heete.
    (Webster 1913)