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Diploid

Diploid Meaning & Definition
Diploid Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Diploid?

[n] (genetics) an organism or cell having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
[adj] (genetics; of a cell or organism) having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number; "diploid somatic cells"

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Diploid In Webster's Dictionary

\Dip"loid\, n. [Gr. ? twofold + -oid.] (Crystallog.) A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.

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