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US
/fɹəˈtɝnəɫ/
]
[ UK /fɹɐtˈɜːnəl/ ]
[ UK /fɹɐtˈɜːnəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova
fraternal twins are biovular -
like or characteristic of or befitting a brother
brotherly feelings
close fraternal ties -
of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men
a fraternal order
How To Use fraternal In A Sentence
- The President's official visit marks the start of a more fraternal relationship between the two countries.
- Silence has long been a tenet of mystery religions such as Wicca, as well as other fraternal organizations such as the Masons, or the Golden Dawn.
- Like most Soviet Fraternal Force vehicles, it carried the blazon of the Afghan Army. KARA KUSH
- Not romantic love, of course, but fraternal love.
- Despite John's objections to psychological explanations, the mother functions as the sexualized prize and arbiter in this fraternal rivalry when the brothers come to blows on her doorstep.
- He therefore has much less of the baggage that converts often bring, and he is able to write in a largely irenic and fraternal manner.
- Fingerprints were in fact used to see whether twins were fraternal or identical.
- Sketching the plot of the film calls to mind any number of archetypal/hackneyed tales of fraternal rivalry, flight from danger, coming of age, and so on.
- Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity, both at an individual level, within the societies where socialism is being built or has been built, and on a world scale, with regard to all peoples suffering from imperialist oppression. Che Guevara
- In "A Genetic Study of Male Sexual Orientation," a study that has now achieved almost as much renown as LeVay's, the Northwestern University psychologist Michael Bailey and Boston University's Richard Pillard compared fifty-six "monozygotic" twins (identical twins, from the same zygote, or fertilized egg), fifty-four "dizygotic" (fraternal) twins, and fifty-seven genetically unrelated adopted brothers. Homosexuality and Biology