EUPLOID


Meaning of EUPLOID in English

[ 'ju:plɔɪd ]

■ adjective Genetics having an equal number of all the chromosomes of the haploid set.

Derivatives

~y noun

Origin

early 20th cent.: from eu- + -oid as in diploid , haploid .

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