diploid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: diploid	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
diploid adj of a cell or organism having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number; "diploid somatic cells" Antonym(s): haploid, haploidic, monoploid, polyploid n (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Diploid \Dip"loid\, n. [Gr. [?] twofold + -oid.] (Crystallog.) A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.