centuplet

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noun

Synonym of hundred: A group of 100.

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nouncentuplet (plural centuplets)

plural centuplets

  1. Synonym of hundred: A group of 100.

    Synonyms: hundred

  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 tadpoles thus produced are then identical twins, octuplets, or centuplets of the original donor of the transplanted nuclei.

    1972, Robert T. Francoeur, Eve's New Rib: Twenty Faces of Sex, Marriage and Family
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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, ...

    1969, Albert Rosenfeld, The second genesis: the coming control of life, USA: Vintage Books

    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.

    2014, Robert Silverberg, Thorns, Open Road Media, →ISBN

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nounSynonym of hundred: A group of 100.

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