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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

heteropaternal en · ADJ

Etymology

From hetero- + paternal.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of different fathers.
    • Identical twins are more common than heteropaternal twins, and less common than fraternal twins. 2008, Hannah Holmes, The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself, Random House, →ISBN, page 188: