QUADRUPLET • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Quadruplet

... quadruplet daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Keys, Hollis, Okla., on July 4, 1915, and were seven months old when the photograph was taken. Up to that time they had never had any other nourishment than their mother's ...

— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

... classes are arranged in pairs or fours, according to whether the system is four- or eight-class, the totems, on the other hand, are distributed phratry fashion; in other words, one group of totems belongs to each pair or quadruplet of classes. This divergent organisation of the classes (four or eight for the whole tribe) and totems (two groups for the whole tribe) can only be explained on the supposition that the phratry everywhere preceded ...

— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas