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haplodiploid

haplodiploid adjective: in which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera.

Adjective

haplodiploid (not comparable)

  1. In which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera
    • Curiously, female sweat bees, as are most others bees, wasps, and ants in the order Hymenoptera, are haplodiploid organisms, in which fertilized eggs become female young and unfertilized eggs become males.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 60

Noun

haplodiploid (plural haplodiploids)

  1. Such an organism

Forms of haplodiploid

pluralhaplodiploids

Origin of haplodiploid

From haplo- + diploid.

Questions about haplodiploid

What does haplodiploid mean?
Haplodiploid means in which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera.
What part of speech is haplodiploid?
Haplodiploid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near haplodiploid in the dictionary

  1. haplodeficiencies
  2. haplodeficiency
  3. haplodeficient
  4. haplodepletion
  5. haplodiplobiontic
  6. haplodiploid
  7. haplodiploids
  8. haplodiploidy
  9. haplodiplontic
  10. haplodont
  11. haplodonty

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