adjective
- Relating to or produced from two separate fertilized eggs; fraternal (of twins).
Usage: Medical/biological term; Also spelled 'dizygotic'
Examples
- Dizygous twins develop from two separate eggs and may look quite different from each other.
- The study compared genetic similarities between dizygous and monozygous twins.
- Fraternal twins are dizygous because they originate from two distinct zygotes.
- Dizygous twins can be of different sexes, unlike identical twins.
- The researchers examined whether dizygous twins shared more environmental factors than genetic ones.