conjoined

adjective con·joined \ kən-ˈjȯind , kän- \

Updated on: 8 Apr 2018

Definition of conjoined

: being, coming, or brought together so as to meet, touch, overlap, or unite

conjoined heads on a coin

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Their brand name now applies to every pair of conjoined twins.

— yunte huang, WSJ, "The Amazing American Story of the Original Siamese Twins," 29 Mar. 2018
Man and puppet look a bit like conjoined twins, with the rosy-cheeked Hildreth dressed in a matching white snowsuit complete with a jaunty Nordic hat.

— jessica gelt, latimes.com, "The curious care and feeding of Olaf the snowman in Broadway's 'Frozen'," 15 Mar. 2018
The conjoined senses often result in amazing memory recall.

— maureen seaberg, Glamour, "Meet the Nurse Whose Superpower is Feeling Your Pain — Literally," 28 Feb. 2018
Who was the first doctor to successfully separate conjoined twins at the head?

— byron mccauley, Cincinnati.com, "Black History Month from the perspective of a German-Irish dad raising African-American kids," 20 Feb. 2018
Twins are rare for porpoises and cetaceans—and conjoined twins are even more rare.

— brigit katz, Smithsonian, "Rare Two-Headed Porpoise Found in North Sea," 15 June 2017
The apartment had a curious setup, with the bedroom in one structure and the studio, irregularly shaped, a few steps up in what was a different but conjoined building.

— jed perl, Smithsonian, "How Alexander Calder Became America’s Most Beloved Sculptor," 30 Sep. 2017
Ten months ago, Mooresville, North Carolina resident, Heather Delaney gave birth to a very rare kind of conjoined twins.

— Southern Living, "Conjoined Twin Girls from North Carolina Separated in Rare Surgery," 16 June 2017
In one of them, which measures close to 7 feet tall, one member of the couple appears to balance upside down atop the other, their heads and hands playfully and eerily conjoined.

— steven winn, San Francisco Chronicle, "Major Rauschenberg retrospective coming to SFMOMA," 2 Nov. 2017

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