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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.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From diploid and haploid.]

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