English Explanatory Dictionary

twissel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Double; twofold.
noun
  1. A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.
  2. That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.

Word forms

twissel more twissel most twissel twistle twissell twissels

Etymology

From Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English *twisel (“forked, double”), from Old English twisla (“confluence, junction”), from Proto-Germanic *twisilą (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel (“fork”).

Synonyms

duplicate twosome
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