non-identicaladj.
/ˌnɒnʌɪˈdɛntᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌnɑnaɪˈdɛn(t)ək(ə)l/, /ˌnɑnəˈdɛn(t)ək(ə)l/ Not identical; spec. (of twins or other multiple births) developed from different fertilized ova, not monozygotic.
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non-identical1855
dizygotic1930
1855 J. King Amer. Eclectic Obstetr. 186 It has also been denied that the decidua reflexa is a mere reflected portion of the decidua vera, as the texture[s] of the two are said to be non-identical.
1890 R. Adamson in W. S. Jevons Pure Logic p. xi Non~identical contents presented to it.
1931 Economica No. 31. 15 Pairs of identical twins and pairs of non-identical twins.
1971 Nature 2 Apr. 279/2 Skin grafts exchanged between genotypically identical siblings survive significantly longer than grafts made between non-identical siblings.
1979 Dædalus Summer 135 Irony..is hypocrisy's nonidentical twin.
1990 E. Horowitz & S. Sahni Fund. Data Structures in Pascal (ed. 3) ix. 496 A collision occurs when two nonidentical identifiers are hashed into the same bucket.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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