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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Producing two offspring in a single birth.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bringing forth two at a birth.
  • In botany, having two branches or axes: applied to a cyme.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Bringing forth two at a birth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective producing two offspring from one pregnancy; twinning

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective producing two offspring at a time

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