heptuplet
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]heptuplet (plural heptuplets)
- One of a group of seven, particularly one of seven babies born at the same birth.
- Synonym: septuplet
- 1905 September 2, “Late Local News in Brief”, in The Janesville Daily Gazette, volume 49, number 148, page 5:
- El Paso Herald: A Hawaiian woman is accredited with heptuplets, three and a half pair of twins, all at once. And Honolulu is waiting to see what Roosevelt purposes to do about it.