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re⋅pro⋅duce

  [ree-pruh-doos, -dyoos] verb, -duced, -duc⋅ing.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
2. to produce again or anew by natural process: to reproduce a severed branch.
3. Biology. to produce one or more other individuals of (a given kind of organism) by some process of generation or propagation, sexual or asexual.
4. to cause or foster the reproduction of (organisms).
5. to produce, form, make, or bring about again or anew in any manner.
6. to recall to the mind or have a mental image of (a past incident, scene, etc.), as by the aid of memory or imagination.
7. to produce again, as a play produced at an earlier time.
–verb (used without object)
8. to reproduce its kind, as an organism; propagate; bear offspring.
9. to turn out in a given manner when copied: This picture will reproduce well.
Origin:
1605–15; re- + produce

Related forms:
re⋅pro⋅duc⋅er, noun
re⋅pro⋅duc⋅i⋅ble, adjective
re⋅pro⋅duc⋅i⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun

Synonyms:
3. generate, propagate, beget. 5. repeat. See imitate.
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Word Origin & History

reproduce 
1611, "to produce again," from re- "again" + produce (v.), probably on model of Fr. reproduire (16c.). Sense of "make a copy" is first recorded 1850; that of "produce offspring" is from 1894. Reproductive in biological sense is recorded from 1836. Reproduction is attested from 1659, "act of creating again;" sense of "generation of living things" is from 1782; meaning "a copy" is from 1807.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: re·pro·duce
Pronunciation: "rE-pr&-'d(y)üs
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: -duced; -duc·ing
transitivesenses
1 : to produce (new individuals of the same kind) by a sexual or asexual process
2 : to achieve (an original result or score) again or anew byrepeating an experiment or test reproduce intransitive senses
1 : to undergo reproduction
2 : to produce offspring
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

reproduce re·pro·duce (rē'prə-d&oomacr;s', -dy&oomacr;s')
v. re·pro·duced, re·pro·duc·ing, re·pro·duc·es

  1. To produce a counterpart, an image, or a copy of something.

  2. To bring something to mind again.

  3. To generate offspring by sexual or asexual means.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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