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fourlings

fourlings is the plural of fourling.

Meaning of fourling

Noun

fourling (plural fourlings)

  1. (obsolete, rare) One of four children born at the same birth; a quadruplet.
    • Every 67th lying-in woman has twins, every 5333rd has trillings, and only every 150,000th has fourlings.1842, “Sweden as it is; Moral, Political and Statistical”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 28, number 55, page 449
  2. A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.

Questions about fourlings

What is fourlings the plural of?
Fourlings is the plural of fourling.

Words near fourlings in the dictionary

  1. Fourierite
  2. Fourierites
  3. fourish
  4. fourlegged
  5. fourling
  6. fourlings
  7. Fourman
  8. Fourmans
  9. fourmarierite
  10. fourneau
  11. fourneaus

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