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haplontic

haplontic adjective: describing an organism that is haploid for most of its life cycle but that briefly has a diploid zygote.

Adjective

haplontic (not comparable)

  1. Describing an organism that is haploid for most of its life cycle but that briefly has a diploid zygote

Questions about haplontic

What does haplontic mean?
Haplontic means describing an organism that is haploid for most of its life cycle but that briefly has a diploid zygote.
What part of speech is haplontic?
Haplontic is an adjective.

Words near haplontic in the dictionary

  1. haplonemas
  2. haploneme
  3. haplonemes
  4. haplons
  5. haplont
  6. haplontic
  7. haplonts
  8. haploperox
  9. haploperoxes
  10. haplophase
  11. haplophases

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