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-ploid

  1. a combining form meaning “having chromosome sets” of the kind or number specified by the initial element:

    hexaploid.



-ploid

combining form

  1. indicating a specific multiple of a single set of chromosomes

    diploid

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • -ploidy, combining_form:in_noun:countable
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ploid1

Extracted from haploid, diploid, etc.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ploid1

from Greek -pl ( oos ) -fold + -oid
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Example Sentences

Unemployed, un-em-ploid′, adj. out of work: not put to use or profit.

The curse of the vegetable worms has been reduced to a minimum on this world of Ploid.

There is triple the variety of nuts on Ploid, and they are used for food more generally than in our world.

It need not be said that I was intensely interested in the study of this phenomenal world which I will call Ploid.

No grade-crossings and no flying dust are known in this Tube Line which has brought the ends of Ploid together.

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