"diploid" meaning in English

See diploid in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Rhymes: -ɔɪd Etymology: diplo- + -oid Etymology templates: {{confix|en|diplo|oid}} diplo- + -oid Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} diploid (not comparable)
  1. (genetics) Of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome, one of the pair being derived from the ovum and the other from the spermatozoon. Most somatic cells of higher organisms are diploid. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Genetics Translations (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome): diploide (Catalan), 二倍體 (Chinese Mandarin), 二倍体 (èrbèitǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), diploidní (Czech), diploïd (Dutch), diploïde [feminine, masculine] (French), diploid (German), diploid (Hungarian), tvílitna (Icelandic), diploida (Ido), diploide [feminine, masculine] (Italian), 二倍体の (nibaitai no) (alt: にばいたいの) (Japanese), dîploîd (Northern Kurdish), xaneya dîploîdî (Northern Kurdish), diploide (Portuguese), diploid (Romanian), дипло́идный (diplóidnyj) (Russian), ди̏плоӣдан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), dȉploīdan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), diploide (Spanish), diploid (Swedish), duhambilmanahin (Tagalog), diploit (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-diploid-en-adj-VzQ8GNjz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with diplo-, English terms suffixed with -oid, English terms suffixed with -ploid Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 25 18 1 6 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 50 24 19 1 7 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with diplo-: 38 27 21 5 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -oid: 55 21 16 3 5 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ploid: 55 21 16 3 5 Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome': 82 13 5
  2. (genetics) Of an organism, having diploid cells. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Genetics
    Sense id: en-diploid-en-adj-xNsP3Wav Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
  3. (crystallography) Of a certain symmetry class with 24 congruent irregular quadrilateral faces. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Crystallography
    Sense id: en-diploid-en-adj-7mN1YxZt Topics: chemistry, crystallography, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: diploidy Related terms: haploid, polyploid, tetraploid, triploid

Noun

Forms: diploids [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔɪd Etymology: diplo- + -oid Etymology templates: {{confix|en|diplo|oid}} diplo- + -oid Head templates: {{en-noun}} diploid (plural diploids)
  1. A diploid cell.
    Sense id: en-diploid-en-noun-3s0k2GnS
  2. A diploid organism.
    Sense id: en-diploid-en-noun-HhiY335Z

Inflected forms

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      "word": "diploit"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "diploid"
  ],
  "word": "diploid"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with diplo-",
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    "English terms suffixed with -ploid",
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  "forms": [
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      "tags": [
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "A diploid cell."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cell",
          "cell"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A diploid organism."
      ],
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          "organism"
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    }
  ],
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    "diploid"
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}

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