"decaplet" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From deca- (“ten”) + -ple (“multiply”) + -et (diminutive suffix); in ignorance of existence of decuplet.",
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          "ref": "1956, Peter Fleming, My Aunt's Rhinoceros, and Other Reflections, page 78:",
          "text": "\"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.",
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