identical twin

English

Identical twins Mark and Scott Kelly, both former NASA astronauts.

Etymology

identical (“indistinguishable”) + twin (“sibling with whom one has shared the uterus of the mother”)

Noun

identical twin (plural identical twins)

1. One of exactly two siblings produced from the splitting of a single zygote.

Synonyms

• monozygotic twin

Translations

sibling

• Danish: enægget tvilling c
• Esperanto: unuovola ĝemelo
• Finnish: identtinen kaksonen
• German: eineiiger Zwilling m
• Indonesian: kembar identik
• Japanese: 一卵性双生児 (ja) (ichiranseisōseiji)
• Malay: kembar seiras
• Swedish: enäggstvilling (sv) c

See also

• semi-identical