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designer baby

noun

  1. a baby developing from an embryo created by in-vitro fertilization and selected because it had or lacked particular genes, the genetic makeup often having been modified by genetic engineering.


designer baby

noun

  1. informal.
    a baby that is the product of genetic engineering
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of designer baby1

First recorded in 1980–85
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She compared the face-creating software to “designer baby” systems in which parents can choose the features of their children.

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And he shows how terms such as “test-tube baby” and “designer baby” are laced with cultural and religious judgements about how conception should proceed.

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Designer baby clothes are one of the many small absurd and irrational joys I take in life.

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It’s like the designer baby thing.

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But at $1,160, the Snoo more expensive than many rocking devices - though designer baby beds can run higher.

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