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-ploid
- a combining form meaning “having chromosome sets” of the kind or number specified by the initial element:
hexaploid.
-ploid
combining form
- indicating a specific multiple of a single set of chromosomes
diploid
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Derived Forms
- -ploidy, combining_form:in_noun:countable
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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.
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The curse of the vegetable worms has been reduced to a minimum on this world of Ploid.
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There is triple the variety of nuts on Ploid, and they are used for food more generally than in our world.
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It need not be said that I was intensely interested in the study of this phenomenal world which I will call Ploid.
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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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