Definitions for diploid

diploid dip·loid

Spelling: [dip-loid]
IPA: /ˈdɪp lɔɪd/

Diploid is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in diploid (ddiilop).

Definitions for diploid

noun

  1. Biology. an organism or cell having double the basic haploid number of chromosomes.
  2. Crystallography. a solid belonging to the isometric system and having 24 trapezoidal planes.

adjective

  1. double; twofold.
  2. Biology. having two similar complements of chromosomes.

Origin of diploid

First recorded in 1905-10; dipl(o)- + -oid

Examples for diploid

They appear with this arrangement in all subsequent nuclear divisions in the diploid generation.

diploid (2n) chromosome numbers were determined from cells in late prophase and metaphase of mitosis.

In animals, as in plants, the diploid generation attained the higher development and gradually assumed the dominant position.

The uninitiated sees in the more highly organised plants only a succession of diploid generations.

Similarly all the higher animals appear to us as independent organisms with diploid nuclei only.

Technically the tissue-cells are said to contain the diploid number of chromosomes, the gametes the reduced or haploid number.

Word Value for diploid
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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