Meaning & use

quadruplets

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four children born from the same pregnancy.

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The couple was overjoyed and overwhelmed to welcome quadruplets into their family.

Raising quadruplets requires an enormous amount of coordination and support.

A note on using this word

Quadruplets follows the same naming pattern as twins (two) and triplets (three), based on the Latin root for 'four.'

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