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hypertetraploid

hypertetraploid adjective: having more than the usual tetraploid number of chromosomes; hyperploid with respect to a tetraploid species genome.

Adjective

hypertetraploid (not comparable)

  1. Having more than the usual tetraploid number of chromosomes; hyperploid with respect to a tetraploid species genome.

Origin of hypertetraploid

From hyper- + tetraploid.

Questions about hypertetraploid

What does hypertetraploid mean?
Hypertetraploid means having more than the usual tetraploid number of chromosomes; hyperploid with respect to a tetraploid species genome.
What part of speech is hypertetraploid?
Hypertetraploid is an adjective.

Words near hypertetraploid in the dictionary

  1. hypertestosteronemia
  2. hypertestosteronemic
  3. hypertetrahedral
  4. hypertetrahedron
  5. hypertetrahedrons
  6. hypertetraploid
  7. hypertext
  8. hypertext file
  9. hypertext files
  10. Hypertext Markup Language
  11. Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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