"fourling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From four + -ling.",
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      "form": "fourlings",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Four",
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        {
          "ref": "1842, “Sweden as it is; Moral, Political and Statistical”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 28, number 55, page 449",
          "text": "Every 67th lying-in woman has twins, every 5333rd has trillings, and only every 150,000th has fourlings.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, The Goat World, Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Goat Industry, page 67",
          "text": "this breed is prominent for its remarkable fecundity and yield of milk; as a rule, this goat litters once a year and drops 2 kids; occasionally trillings and fourlings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Hans Dreisch (W.H. Johnston), Man and the Universe, page 93",
          "text": "If the two or the four first cells into which the animal ovum divides during the process of so-called cleavage be separated from one another, then each of these cells grows into a small but complete organism. Conversely, if two ova be caused to amalgamate with parallel axes, the result is a \"giant\". What is the meaning of this? It is, that the material which, if left undisturbed, would have grown into one, can grow into many-into twins or into fourlings. And similarly the material destined for many may furnish one only.",
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      "glosses": [
        "One of four children born at the same birth; a quadruplet."
      ],
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        "(obsolete, rare) One of four children born at the same birth; a quadruplet."
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        "A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals."
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          "twin",
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        "(crystallography) A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals."
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        "chemistry",
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        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
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  "word": "fourling"
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  "etymology_text": "From four + -ling.",
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        "plural"
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          "ref": "1842, “Sweden as it is; Moral, Political and Statistical”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 28, number 55, page 449",
          "text": "Every 67th lying-in woman has twins, every 5333rd has trillings, and only every 150,000th has fourlings.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, The Goat World, Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Goat Industry, page 67",
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        },
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          "text": "If the two or the four first cells into which the animal ovum divides during the process of so-called cleavage be separated from one another, then each of these cells grows into a small but complete organism. Conversely, if two ova be caused to amalgamate with parallel axes, the result is a \"giant\". What is the meaning of this? It is, that the material which, if left undisturbed, would have grown into one, can grow into many-into twins or into fourlings. And similarly the material destined for many may furnish one only.",
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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        "(crystallography) A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals."
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