Centuplet
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Centuplet is a noun meaning Synonym of hundred: A group of 100.
Meaning
Synonym of hundred: A group of 100.
More Meanings
- 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 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.
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, .
Word Forms
- centuplets
Synonyms for centuplet
Depending on context, synonyms include hundred.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include centenary, centuplication, century, pentuplet, decuplet, hextuplet.
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