Word.ws English Dictionary

semi-identical

semi-identical adjective: being the result of two sperm cells fertilizing a single egg, which then splits into two embryos, sharing all of the mother's genetic material but only half of the father's.

Adjective

semi-identical (not comparable)

  1. Being the result of two sperm cells fertilizing a single egg, which then splits into two embryos, sharing all of the mother's genetic material but only half of the father's.
  2. Being the result of two sperm cells each fertilizing a split egg, where one fertilizes the major egg body and another fertilizes the minor polar body.

Origin of semi-identical

From semi- + identical.

Questions about semi-identical

What does semi-identical mean?
Semi-identical means being the result of two sperm cells fertilizing a single egg, which then splits into two embryos, sharing all of the mother's genetic material but only half of the father's.
What part of speech is semi-identical?
Semi-identical is an adjective.

Words near semi-identical in the dictionary

  1. semi-highways
  2. semi-homemade
  3. semi-hourly
  4. semi-human
  5. semi-humans
  6. semi-identical
  7. semi-incarcerated
  8. semi-incarceration
  9. semi-incarcerations
  10. semi-independent
  11. semi-infaunal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: semi-identical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “semi-identical.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/semi-identical. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.