-PLOID

Meaning of -PLOID in English

■ combining form Biology denoting the number of sets of chromosomes in a cell: triploid.

Origin

based on (ha)ploid and (di)ploid .

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-PLOID — adjective combining form Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from diploid and haploid having or being a chromosome number that bears (such) …
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-PLOID — ˌplȯid adjective combining form Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from diploid (II) & haploid (I) : having or being a chromosome …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
-PLOID — a combining form meaning "having chromosome sets" of the kind or number specified by the initial element: hexaploid. [ extracted …
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-PLOID — Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from diploid and haploid : having or being a chromosome number that bears (such) a relationship …
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-PLOID — [-ploid] adj comb form [ISV, fr. diploid & haploid]: having or being a chromosome number that bears (such) a relationship …
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-PLOID — comb. form Biol. forming adjectives denoting the number of sets of chromosomes in a cell (diploid; polyploid). [after HAPLOID]
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PLOID — Function: adjective combining form Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from diploid and haploid : having or being a chromosome number that …
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TETRAPLOID — I. ˈte.trəˌplȯid adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary tetra- + -ploid : fourfold in appearance or arrangement ; specifically : having …
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POLYPLOID — I. ˈpäləˌplȯid adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary poly- + ploid : having or being a chromosome number that is a …
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PENTAPLOID — I. ˈpentəˌplȯid adjective also pen·ta·ploi·dic | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|plȯidik Etymology: pentaploid from penta- + -ploid; pentaploidic from pentaploid (II) + -ic : fivefold …
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OCTOPLOID — I. adjective also oc·ta·ploid ˈäktəˌplȯid Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary octa- + -ploid : eightfold in appearance or arrangement ; specifically …
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MONOPLOID — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌplȯid adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary mon- + -ploid : having or being a chromosome set comprising a single …
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HYPERPLOID — I. ˈhīpə(r)ˌplȯid adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary hyper- + -ploid : having or being a chromosome number slightly greater than …
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HEXAPLOID — I. ˈheksəˌplȯid adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary hexa- + -ploid : sixfold in appearance or arrangement ; specifically : having …
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HETEROPLOID — I. -ˌplȯid adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary heter- + -ploid : having a chromosome number that is greater or smaller …
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HEPTAPLOID — I. ˈheptəˌplȯid adjective Etymology: hepta- + -ploid : having seven times the monoploid number of chromosomes II. noun ( -s …
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EUPLOID — I. ˈyüˌplȯid adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary eu- + -ploid : having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple …
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AMPHIPLOID — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌplȯid adjective Etymology: amphi- + -ploid of an interspecific hybrid : having at least one complete diploid set of …
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OCTA- — combining form or octo- also oct- Etymology: Greek okta-, oktō-, okt- (from oktō ) & Latin octo-, oct- (from octo …
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MIXOPLOID — ˈmiksəˌplȯid noun ( -s ) Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary mixo- + -ploid; probably originally formed in German : an organism …
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ISOPLOID — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌplȯid adjective Etymology: is- + -ploid : having an even number of genomes in somatic cells
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HYPOPLOID — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷+ˌplȯid adjective Etymology: hypo- + -ploid : having a chromosome number a little smaller than an exact multiple of the …
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HOMOPLOID — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌplȯid adjective Etymology: hom- + -ploid : exhibiting similar degrees of ploidy
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ANISOPLOID — (ˈ)a|nīsəˌplȯid adjective Etymology: anis- (I) + -ploid : having a chromosome number (as triploid, pentaploid) that is an odd multiple …
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ALL- — combining form or allo- Etymology: Greek, from allos other, different — more at else 1. : other : different : …
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TRIPLOID — — triploidy , n. /trip"loyd/ , Biol. adj. 1. having a chromosome number that is three times the basic or …
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TETRAPLOID — — tetraploidy , n. /te"treuh ployd'/ , adj. Biol. 1. having a chromosome number that is four times the basic …
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POLYPLOID — — polyploidic , adj. — polyploidy , n. /pol"ee ployd'/ , Biol. adj. 1. having a chromosome number that is …
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PLOIDY — /ploy"dee/ , n. Biol. the number of homologous chromosome sets present in a cell or organism. [ 1935-40; see -PLOID, …
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PENTAPLOID — — pentaploidy , n. /pen"teuh ployd'/ , adj. 1. having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number. …
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MONOPLOID — /mon"euh ployd'/ , Biol. adj. 1. having the basic or haploid number of chromosomes. n. 2. a monoploid cell or …
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MIXOPLOID — — mixoploidy , n. /mik"seuh ployd'/ , n. Genetics. an organism having an unequal number of chromosome sets in adjacent …
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