-ploid
a combining form meaning “having chromosome sets” of the kind or number specified by the initial element: hexaploid.
Origin of -ploid
1Words Nearby -ploid
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How to use -ploid in a sentence
Unemployed, un-em-ploid′, adj. out of work: not put to use or profit.
The curse of the vegetable worms has been reduced to a minimum on this world of Ploid.
Life in a Thousand Worlds | William Shuler HarrisThere is triple the variety of nuts on Ploid, and they are used for food more generally than in our world.
Life in a Thousand Worlds | William Shuler HarrisIt need not be said that I was intensely interested in the study of this phenomenal world which I will call Ploid.
Life in a Thousand Worlds | William Shuler HarrisNo grade-crossings and no flying dust are known in this Tube Line which has brought the ends of Ploid together.
Life in a Thousand Worlds | William Shuler Harris
British Dictionary definitions for -ploid
indicating a specific multiple of a single set of chromosomes: diploid
Origin of -ploid
1Derived forms of -ploid
- -ploidy, n combining form
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