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quadriploid

quadriploid is the alternative form of tetraploid.

Meaning of tetraploid

Noun

tetraploid (plural tetraploids)

  1. A tetraploid cell.
  2. A tetraploid organism.
    • The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids .1995, Romuald Kosina, Tetraploids of the Genus Triticum in the Light of Caryopsis Structure

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Forms of quadriploid

pluralquadriploids

Origin of quadriploid

From quadri- + -ploid.

Questions about quadriploid

What is quadriploid the alternative form of?
Quadriploid is the alternative form of tetraploid.

Words near quadriploid in the dictionary

  1. quadriplex
  2. quadriplicate
  3. quadriplicated
  4. quadriplicates
  5. quadriplicating
  6. quadriploid
  7. quadriploids
  8. quadripoint
  9. quadripoints
  10. quadripolar
  11. quadripole

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