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-ploid

  1. a combining form meaning “having chromosome sets†of the kind or number specified by the initial element:

    hexaploid.



-ploid

combining form

  1. indicating a specific multiple of a single set of chromosomes

    diploid

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • -ploidy, combining_form:in_noun:countable
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of -ploid1

Extracted from haploid, diploid, etc.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of -ploid1

from Greek -pl ( oos ) -fold + -oid
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The palaces of Ploid are dreams of beauty and convenience, outshining and surpassing by far the finest mansions on the face of our globe.

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Surely we are far enough away from Ploid to escape any charge of infringement, should we proceed to patent some of their inventions.

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It need not be said that I was intensely interested in the study of this phenomenal world which I will call Ploid.

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The people of Ploid have in their possession a remarkable line of fertilizers, not in the form of ground bones, but acidulous juices.

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The curse of the vegetable worms has been reduced to a minimum on this world of Ploid.

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