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centuplet

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Fromcentuple +‎-et, q.v.

Noun

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centuplet (pluralcentuplets)

  1. Synonym ofhundred: Agroup of100.
    Coordinate terms:singlet,couplet,triplet,quadruplet,tetraplet,pentuplet,sextuplet,septuplet,octuplet,nonuplet,decuplet,multiplet
  2. One of agroup of100,particularlyone of100babiesborn at thesametime, from thesameegg, or from thesameDNA.
    • 1969, Albert Rosenfeld,The second genesis: the coming control of life, USA: Vintage Books:
      The egg of a chalcid wasp can perform even more impressively; it can keep splitting until it gives birth tocentuplets — but not like the artificially induced bovinecentuplets of Dr. Hafez. His are all separate individuals, ...
    • 1972, Robert T. Francoeur,Eve's New Rib: Twenty Faces of Sex, Marriage and Family:
      The tadpoles thus produced are then identical twins, octuplets, orcentuplets of the original donor of the transplanted nuclei.
    • 2014, Robert Silverberg,Thorns, Open Road Media,→ISBN:
      Centuplets. A hundred siblings sharing the same group of codons. What would they be like? How would they grow? Could a man live in a world shared by fifty brothers and fifty sisters? That was part of the experiment.
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