Meaning of centuplet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of hundred: A group of 100.
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.

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Examples

“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, ...”

“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⟳.”

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