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twins: see multiple birth multiple birth, bringing forth of more than one offspring at birth. Although many smaller mammals bear several young at a time, multiple births are relatively uncommon in humans and other primates. ..... Click the link for more information. . Twins See also Doubles. Alcmena’s sons born in single delivery but conceived by two men. [Rom. Lit.: Amphitryon] identically named sons of Aegeon and Emilia. [Br. Lit.: Comedy of Errors] twin brother and sister; children of Leta and Zeus. [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 125–126] two sets of twins share adventures. [Children’s Lit.: Bobbsey Twins’ Mystery at Meadowbrook] sons of Leda and Zeus, placed in heaven as constellation Gemini. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 52] based on Plautus’s Menaechmi, with two sets of twins. [Br. Lit.: Comedy of Errors] one twin instinctively feels what happens to other. [Fr. Lit.: The Corsican Brothers] Spartan brothers. [Gk. Myth.: Avery, 408; Leach, 314] twin principals of Greenleaf boarding school. [Br. Lit.: Bleak House] Dromio of Ephesus; Dromio of Syracuse. [Br. Lit.: Comedy of Errors]
zodiacal twins; [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 1056] early comic strip featured incorrigible twins. [Comics: “The Captain and the Kids” in Horn, 421] Bastille prisoner learns that he is the twin brother of Louis XIV; conspirators planned to substitute him for the king. [Fr. Lit.: Dumas Vicomte de Bragellonne in Magill I, 1063] comedy, by Plautus, about mistakes involving identical twins. [Rom. Lit.: Menaechmi] short lookalike twins with derbies. [Comics: Horn, 492] born to Tamar; conceived by father-in-law, Judah. [O.T.: Genesis 38:29–30] suckled by she-wolf; founded Rome. [Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 320] Eng and Chang (1814–74), the original pair, were connected at the chest. [Medical Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 828] identical characters in children’s fantasy. [Br. Lit.: Through the Looking-Glass] symbol of twins; in particular, Castor and Pollux [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 343] |
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