triplets

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Triplets are three children born to the same mother at the same time. Give birth to triplets, identical triplets, a set of triplets.

They occur naturally in perhaps one birth in eight thousand, and far more often where fertility treatment is involved. They almost always arrive early and small, and identical triplets, from one egg splitting twice, are rarer still.

Definitions of triplets

1nountripletsThree children born to the same mother at the same time.B1+
“She gave birth to triplets, two boys and a girl.”

triplets is children.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*tréyes
English
triplet
English, today
triplets

triplet comes from triple + et.

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triplets in the wild

Such births are often named according to the number of offspring, as in twins and triplets.
Multiple birth
Nicole, Erica, and Jaclyn Dahm, commonly known as the Dahm triplets, are American triplets from Minnesota.
Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm
The Dahm triplets have appeared on many television shows and movies, and have appeared in magazines such as Teen and Playboy.
Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm
The Triplets were created in 1983, based on Capdevila's own daughters, three actual triplets born in 1969.
The Triplets

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