Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of four children born at the same birth.
- noun In mineralogy, a twin crystal made up of four independent individuals. See
twin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of four children born at the same time; a quadruplet.
- noun (Crystallog.) A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of four
children born at the same birth; aquadruplet . - noun crystallography A
compound ortwin crystal consisting of four individuals.
Etymologies
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From four + -ling.
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` fourling, 'i.e. quadruplets; zelfmoord ` self-murder,' i.e. suicide;
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