one of a pair of babies from different eggs that a woman gives birth to at the same time. Two babies born from a single egg look exactly like each other and are called identical twins.
Synonyms and related words
Brothers and sisters
bhai
bhuti
big
fraternal twin
noun countable biology
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Word Forms
singular
fraternal twin
plural
fraternal twins
DEFINITIONS1
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one of a pair of babies from different eggs that a woman gives birth to at the same time. Two babies born from a single egg look exactly like each other and are called identical twins.