heptuplet

English

Etymology

From heptuple +‎ -et.

Noun

heptuplet (plural heptuplets)

1. 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.