decaplet

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A form of decuplet — A group of ten notes played in place of four or eight.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

noundecaplet (plural decaplets)

plural decaplets

  1. alternativeAlternative form of decuplet.

    There have been three cases reported of decaplets - multiple births of 10 children.

    1989 July 30, “For the Record”, in Chicago Sun-Times, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016, page 4
    1 more example

    "Medical opinion is that reported instances of multiple [human] births in excess of seven must be looked on with great suspicion," they write sternly; yet they do not deny us a somehow tantalizing glimpse of Ann Birch who, in 1781, is alleged to have produced decaplets of whom one girl survived to marry a Mr. Platt of Leeds.

    1956, Peter Fleming, My Aunt's Rhinoceros, and Other Reflections, page 78

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Origin

From deca- (“ten”) + -ple (“multiply”) + -et (diminutive suffix); in ignorance of existence of decuplet.

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