English Explanatory Dictionary

identical twin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of exactly two siblings produced from the splitting of a single zygote.

Word forms

identical twin identical twins

Etymology

identical (“indistinguishable”) + twin (“sibling with whom one has shared the uterus of the mother”)

Synonyms

monozygotic twin

Related words

semi-identical
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