dizygotic
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dizygotic (not comparable)
- (biology) Derived from two eggs that have been separately fertilized; dizygous.
- 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 2, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 27:
- I was not alone, moreover. I had a dizygotic twin, a female.
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Used especially of non-identical twins.
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derived from two eggs that have been separately fertilized
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