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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- suffix Having a number of chromosomes that has a specified relationship to, or is a multiple of, the basic number of chromosomes of a group.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From diploid and haploid.]
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