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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

diploid

/(dĭp"loid)/ · dip·loid · IPA /ˈdɪploiːʔ/
01 n. A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
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    A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.(Crystallog.)
  2. 2.
    a cell or organism having a number of chromosomes corresponding to two copies of each chromosome; a diploid cell or organism.(Biol.)
    “A: I'm not interested in diploids. B: Oh, how I wish your parents had felt the same way!”
02 a. having a number of chromosomes corresponding to two copies of each chromosome; having double the basic number of chromosomes, as seen in a …
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    having a number of chromosomes corresponding to two copies of each chromosome; having double the basic number of chromosomes, as seen in a haploid cell. Contrasted to haploid and polyploid.(Biol.)