identical twin

English

Etymology

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

Noun

identical twin (plural identical twins)

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

Synonyms

• monozygotic twin

Translations

sibling

• Danish: enægget tvilling c
• Esperanto: unuovola ĝemelo

See also

• semi-identical