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diploid |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Diploid \Dip"loid\, n. [Gr. ? twofold + -oid.] (Crystallog.) A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: diploid adj : (genetics; of a cell or organism) having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number; "diploid somatic cells" [ant: {polyploid}, {haploid}] n : an organism or cell having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
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