-ploid

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

-ploid

combining form

Origin of -ploid¹

Extracted from haploid, diploid, etc.

Origin of -ploid¹

from Greek -pl ( oos ) -fold + -oid

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.

There is triple the variety of nuts on Ploid, and they are used for food more generally than in our world.

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

No grade-crossings and no flying dust are known in this Tube Line which has brought the ends of Ploid together.

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