Word.ws English Dictionary

polyploidies

polyploidies is the plural of polyploidy.

Meaning of polyploidy

Noun

polyploidy (countable and uncountable, plural polyploidies)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being polyploid or the process of becoming polyploid.
    • As they mature, the DNA is replicated several times but the cell does not divide, a condition known as polyploidy which allows cells to increase in size.2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 90
  2. (countable) An instance of being polyploid.

Questions about polyploidies

What is polyploidies the plural of?
Polyploidies is the plural of polyploidy.

Words near polyploidies in the dictionary

  1. polyplexes
  2. polyplicate
  3. polyplocodont
  4. polyploid
  5. polyploidal
  6. polyploidies
  7. polyploidisation
  8. polyploidization
  9. polyploidizations
  10. polyploidize
  11. polyploidized

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: polyploidies (page history and authors); polyploidy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “polyploidies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/polyploidies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.