fraternal twin

Questions about fraternal twin

What is another word for fraternal twin?

It depends which fraternal twin you mean. In the sense “either of two twins who developed from two separate fertilized eggs”, the synonyms are dizygotic twin. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of fraternal twin?

WordNet records no antonym for fraternal twin. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for fraternal twin come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of fraternal twin

• Full entry for fraternal twinAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for fraternal twinWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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