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Meanings of non-identical twins in English

Russian
многояйцовые близнецы
Spanish
gemelos dicigoticos
Catalan
bessons
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Twins formed by two separate eggs fertilised by two separate sperms.

    многояйцовые близнецы
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    Examples for "fraternal twins"
    Examples for "fraternal twins"
    1
    That results when fraternal twins share some portion of the same placenta.
    Spider Bones
    2
    They're fraternal twins and yet people can barely tell them apart.
    Hush: a novel
    3
    Gabby and Lili Fiorello, the Twitter Twins, were fraternal twins in their grade.
    Never Have I Ever
    4
    To test this she focused on twin studies using both identical and fraternal twins.
    The Irish Times
    5
    In the laboratory, they were unchanged for fraternal twins, but increased for identical twins.
    Pubmed
    1
    Only nine pairs of dizygotic twins reared apart in Lishui were recruited.
    Pubmed
    2
    Otherwise, mortality for monozygotic and dizygotic twins did not consistently differ after age 6.
    Pubmed
    3
    The doctors told my mother she was expecting dizygotic twins, more commonly called fraternal twins.
    Bloodthirsty
    4
    A genome-wide linkage analysis was performed on the dizygotic twins using a modified version of the Haseman-Elston method.
    Pubmed
    5
    There were 580 monozygotic twins, 664 dizygotic twins and 333 of their siblings.
    Pubmed
    Usage of non-identical twins in English
    1
    Identical twins, who share 100 percent of their DNA, had more similar populations of gut microbes than did non-identical twins.
    Wired
    2
    They focused on sun-seeking behaviour and genetics and found that identical twins were more likely to have a similar behaviour than non-identical twins.
    Independent.ie
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    Catalan
    bessons