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

See also
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