Diploid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Double or twofold.
  • adj. Genetics Having a pair of each type of chromosome, so that the basic chromosome number is doubled: diploid somatic cells.
  • n. Genetics An organism or cell having diploid cells.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome, one of the pair being derived from the ovum and the other from the spermatozoon. Most somatic cells of higher organisms are diploid.
  • n. A cell which is diploid.
  • n. An organism with diploid cells.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
  • n. a cell or organism having a number of chromosomes corresponding to two copies of each chromosome; a diploid cell or organism.
  • adj. having a number of chromosomes corresponding to two copies of each chromosome; having double the basic number of chromosomes, as seen in a haploid cell. Contrasted to haploid and polyploid.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In crystallography, a solid belonging to the isometric system, with 24 trapezoidal planes. It is the parallel-hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron. Also called dyakis-dodecahedron.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of a cell or organism having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
  • n. (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
    • Antonym
    haploid    polyploid   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    being    organism   
    Cross Reference
    polyploid    tetraploid    triploid    haploid   
    Form
    diploidy   
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