reproduction

/ˌrē-prə-ˈdək-shən/

noun

  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

reproduction duplicate copy facsimile replica mean a thing made to closely resemble another. reproduction implies an exact or close imitation of an existing thing. duplicate implies a double or counterpart exactly corresponding to another thing.

noun

  1. repro