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centuplet

centuplet noun: synonym of hundred: A group of 100.

Noun

centuplet (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 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
    • 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

Synonyms of centuplet

Forms of centuplet

pluralcentuplets

Origin of centuplet

From centuple + -et, q.v.

Questions about centuplet

What does centuplet mean?
Centuplet means synonym of hundred: A group of 100.
What part of speech is centuplet?
Centuplet is a noun.
What is the plural of centuplet?
The plural of centuplet is centuplets.

Words near centuplet in the dictionary

  1. centumviri
  2. centumvirs
  3. centuple
  4. centupled
  5. centuples
  6. centuplet
  7. centuplets
  8. centuplicate
  9. centuplicated
  10. centuplicates
  11. centuplicating

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