| 单词 | twin-birth |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwin-birth twin-birth n. the birth of twins; a pair born or produced as twins, or one of such in relation to the other (usually figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > multiple birth twinning1573 twin-birth1807 multiple birth1826 1807 S. T. Coleridge To Wordsworth 13 Of smiles spontaneous, and mysterious fear, The first-born they of Reason and twin-birth. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott xxv The quarto of Rokeby was followed..by the small volume which had been designed for a twin-birth. 1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 238 The portentous twin-birth of the two great mendicant communities. 1912 A. Keith Human Body viii. 113 Twins are common; in Ireland a twin birth has a frequency of one in seventy-two, in England about one in seventy-five. < as lemmas |
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