Centuplet

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of hundred: A group of 100.
  2. 2
    One of a group of 100, particularly one of 100 babies born at the same time, from the same egg, or from the same DNA.

    "The egg of a chalcid wasp can perform even more impressively; it can keep splitting until it gives birth to centuplets — but not like the artificially induced bovine centuplets of Dr. Hafez. His are all separate individuals, ..."

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hundred

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"The egg of a chalcid wasp can perform even more impressively; it can keep splitting until it gives birth to centuplets — but not like the artificially induced bovine centuplets of Dr. Hafez. His are all separate individuals, ..."

Etymology

From centuple + -et, q.v.

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