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haplodiplontic

haplodiplontic adjective: having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.

Adjective

haplodiplontic (not comparable)

  1. Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages

Origin of haplodiplontic

From haplo- + diplontic.

Questions about haplodiplontic

What does haplodiplontic mean?
Haplodiplontic means having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
What part of speech is haplodiplontic?
Haplodiplontic is an adjective.

Words near haplodiplontic in the dictionary

  1. haplodepletion
  2. haplodiplobiontic
  3. haplodiploid
  4. haplodiploids
  5. haplodiploidy
  6. haplodiplontic
  7. haplodont
  8. haplodonty
  9. haplogenotype
  10. haplogenotypes
  11. haplogenotypic

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