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Diploid   Listen
noun
diploid  n.  
1.
(Crystallog.) A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
2.
(Biol.) A cell or organism having a number of chromosomes corresponding to two copies of each chromosome; a diploid cell or organism. "A: I'm not interested in diploids. B: Oh, how I wish your parents had felt the same way!"





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Words linked to "Diploid" :   polyploid, genetic science, being, haploid


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