What's the meaning of 'twins' in English?
Hi! I write stories but I'm not an English native speaker and I have a doubt with this term.
I am not sure if in English there is another way to call them, in Spanish we say “mellizos” for those siblings that born when two different spermatozoon’s fertilizes two different ovum’s, of course they born the same day in the same childbirth, but they can be a girl and a boy, or two boys or two girls, they look very very similar, but not identical. One of them can have blue eyes and the other one green eyes.
And we say “gemelos” for those brothers or sisters that born when two different spermatozoon’s fertilizes THE SAME ovum, so they're identical, they only can be two boys or two girls, same eye-color, same hair-color.
In my story, my characters are "mellizos" how do you say that? Or you say twins in both cases?
Help please!
I am not sure if in English there is another way to call them, in Spanish we say “mellizos” for those siblings that born when two different spermatozoon’s fertilizes two different ovum’s, of course they born the same day in the same childbirth, but they can be a girl and a boy, or two boys or two girls, they look very very similar, but not identical. One of them can have blue eyes and the other one green eyes.
And we say “gemelos” for those brothers or sisters that born when two different spermatozoon’s fertilizes THE SAME ovum, so they're identical, they only can be two boys or two girls, same eye-color, same hair-color.
In my story, my characters are "mellizos" how do you say that? Or you say twins in both cases?
Help please!
