centuplet
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "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, ..."
- "The tadpoles thus produced are then identical twins, octuplets, or centuplets of the original donor of the transplanted nuclei."
- "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."
Etymology
From centuple + -et, q.v.