fraternal
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5.9
- adjective
- /frəˈtɜrnəl/
- Specialized
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mellizo
- Smoking preferences were more often shared by identical than by fraternal twins.
- fraternal twins
- fraternal twin pairs
You can calculate this by comparing monozygotic identical twins with fraternal dizygotic twins.
- You can calculate this by comparing monozygotic identical twins with fraternal dizygotic twins.
- And, you know, I have two six year old boys now, fraternal twins.
- And as you know, fraternal twins share half of their DNA, identical twins share all of their DNA.
- Yes, Katt, Williams and I have a relationship with fraternal twins.
- I got a fraternal twin brother and he's no.
- So I don't know if that's good or let me know if fraternal twins can stay alive or need to fight for the death.
- And then to be great friends since they're fraternal twins and passion is a matter of just exposing them to as much stuff as possible.
Examples
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If heredity affects a trait, identical twins should be more similar for the trait than fraternal twins.
Blog text (1) -
The MacManus brothers are fraternal twins.
Fiction book (1999) -
Liberty and July, born at midnight on the Fourth of July, were fraternal.
Fiction book (1993) -
Whatever these things are, they will be like fraternal twins; they will be so alike.
Blog text (19) -
Two studies compared the smoking behaviors of identical and fraternal twin pairs.
Academic text (1991) -
I know what you are saying; I have two-and-a-half-year-old fraternal boy/girl twins.
Blog text (17) -
You can calculate this by comparing monozygotic identical twins with fraternal dizygotic twins.
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Liberty and July, born at midnight on the Fourth of July, were fraternal twins.
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The MacManus brothers are fraternal twins, as they were born from two separate eggs.
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I have two-and-a-half-year-old fraternal twins, a boy and a girl, who look quite different from each other.
Synonyms
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9.1
Twins born from two different eggs fertilized by two different sperm and so not identical
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7.7
Twins born from different eggs who are not identical
Twins who come from two separate eggs each fertilized by a different sperm
Of twins who come from two different eggs and are not identical
Antonyms
Compounds
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One of two children born at the same time from different eggs who may look different and be different sexes
How Genetically Identical
- Specialized
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fraternal comes from the Latin root frater 'brother'. It is used for twins who are like ordinary brothers or sisters because they come from two different eggs, so they are not identical.