- decaplet
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a) One of a group of ten babies born at the same time.
"Medical opinion is that reported instances of multiple [human] births in excess of seven must be looked on with great suspicion," they write sternly; yet they do not deny us a somehow tantalizing glimpse of Ann Birch who, in 1781, is alleged to have produced decaplets of whom one girl survived to marry a Mr. Platt of Leeds.
b) A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.There have been three cases reported of decaplets - multiple births of 10 children. <! this and other News Archive results appear to depend on Guinness
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