identical twin

English

Identical twins Mark and Scott Kelly, both former NASA astronauts.

Etymology

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

Noun

identical twin (plural identical twins)

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

Synonyms

monozygotic twin

Translations

sibling

Danish: enægget tvilling c
Esperanto: unuovola ĝemelo
Finnish: identtinen kaksonen
German: eineiiger Zwilling m
Indonesian: kembar identik
Malay: kembar seiras
Swedish: enäggstvilling (sv) c

See also

semi-identical

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