identical twin

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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.

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