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tetraploid

tetraploid adjective: having four sets of chromosomes.

Adjective

tetraploid (not comparable)

  1. Having four sets of chromosomes.
    • In potato, crosses between the tetraploid cultivated species Solanum tuberosum, and some clones of the diploid wild-type species S. phureja, constitute a method of producing maternal dihaploids.1998, C. Horlow, C. Raquin, “A Critical Analysis of Existing Haploidization Techniques”, in Y[ves] Chupeau, M[ichel] Caboche, Y[ves] Henry, editors, Androgenesis and Haploid Plants: […] In Memory of...

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

tetraploid meaning in Tamil

tetraploid in Tamil

நான்கு மடங்கு, நான்மயமி, நான்மடியம், நான் மயமி, நாலு மடங்கு

Forms of tetraploid

pluraltetraploids

Origin of tetraploid

From Ancient Greek τετραπλός (tetraplós) + Ancient Greek είδος (eídos), equivalent to tetra- + -ploid.

Words formed from tetraploid

Questions about tetraploid

What does tetraploid mean?
Tetraploid means having four sets of chromosomes.
What is tetraploid in Tamil?
Tetraploid in Tamil is நான்கு மடங்கு, நான்மயமி, நான்மடியம். See Tetraploid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tetraploid?
Tetraploid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near tetraploid in the dictionary

  1. tetraplets
  2. tetraplex
  3. tetraplexes
  4. tetraplicate
  5. tetraplicates
  6. tetraploid
  7. tetraploidic
  8. tetraploidies
  9. tetraploidisation
  10. tetraploidisations
  11. tetraploidism

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