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fraternal twin
noun
- one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fraternal twin1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Yoselin’s first job, at 16, was babysitting Charlotte and her two younger siblings, fraternal twins.
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The results were consistent across both identical and fraternal twin pairs.
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The girls are described as fraternal twins - with rare separate birthdays.
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Portugal found that the looking preferences of the genetically identical twins were more similar than those of the fraternal twins.
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In a nice pairing, identical twin Catholic clergy baptized a pair of fraternal twins during a recent Mass in Pennsylvania, The Times’ Sean Salai reports.
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