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fraternal twin
noun
one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fraternal twin1
Example Sentences
Yoselin’s first job, at 16, was babysitting Charlotte and her two younger siblings, fraternal twins.
The results were consistent across both identical and fraternal twin pairs.
The girls are described as fraternal twins - with rare separate birthdays.
Portugal found that the looking preferences of the genetically identical twins were more similar than those of the fraternal twins.
In a nice pairing, identical twin Catholic clergy baptized a pair of fraternal twins during a recent Mass in Pennsylvania, The Times’ Sean Salai reports.
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