DIZYGOUS

dizygotic, dizygous

(adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs; “dizygotic twins”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

dizygous (not comparable)

dizygotic

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

18 December 2024

ROOT

(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”


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Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.

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