dizygotic

1. 1.

   derived from two separately fertilized eggs

   “dizygotic twins”

   Synonymsdizygous

Questions about dizygotic

What does dizygotic mean?

dizygotic means "derived from two separately fertilized eggs".

How many syllables are in dizygotic?

dizygotic has 4 syllables and divides as di-zy-go-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for dizygotic?

Close synonyms include dizygous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dizygotic a common word?

dizygotic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.