quadruplet

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A dairy cow giving birth to extremely rare quadruplet calves has been described as "unheard of" by farm staff.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2024

Not that Fay would have envisioned that as a youngster growing up as a quadruplet in Ireland.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2022

"An example is a quadruplet pregnancy reduced to twins in order to decrease the risk of the pregnancy," Shahine explained to Salon.

From Salon • May 10, 2022

It was Nick Wade’s idea to write about being a quadruplet.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2017

A quadruplet code would have 256 permutations—far more than needed to encode twenty amino acids.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee