haploid

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Etymology

From haplo- +‎ -oid.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪd

Adjective

haploid (not comparable)

2. (genetics, broadly) Having the number of chromosomes that a typical gamete has (in the given organism), namely, half the number that a typical somatic cell has (in the given organism).

   Hyponyms: monoploid (1 set), diploid (2 sets)

   Coordinate terms: euploid; aneuploid, nonaneuploid; (more than 2) polyploid (as follows), triploid (3), tetraploid (4), pentaploid (5), hexaploid (6), heptaploid (7)

   1. (genetics, strictly) Having a single set of unpaired chromosomes (which is the number that a typical gamete has in many organisms although not all).

      Synonym: monoploid

      Hyponyms: gynohaploid, allohaploid, polyhaploid

      Coordinate terms: euploid; aneuploid, nonaneuploid; diploid (2); (more than 2) polyploid (as follows), triploid (3), tetraploid (4), pentaploid (5), hexaploid (6), heptaploid (7)

      Examples of haploid cells are prokaryotes and the gametes of eukaryotes.

Derived terms

• allohaploid
• gynohaploid
• haploidic
• haploidy
• polyhaploid

 

Related terms

• haplotype

 

Translations

having a single set of unpaired chromosomes

Catalan: haploide Chinese: Mandarin: 單倍體／单倍体 (zh) (dānbèitǐ) Czech: haploidní Finnish: haploidi (fi), haploidinen (fi) French: haploïde (fr) German: haploid (de) Greek: απλοειδής m (aploeidís) Hungarian: haploid (hu) Icelandic: einlitna Interlingua: haploide Italian: aploide (it) Japanese: 半数体の (はんすうたいの, hansūtai no) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: haploîd Polish: haploidalny (pl) Portuguese: haploide Romanian: haploid Russian: гапло́идный (ru) (gaplóidnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ха̏плоӣдан Roman: hȁploīdan (sh) Spanish: haploide (es) Swedish: haploid (sv) Turkish: haploit (tr)

Noun

haploid (plural haploids)

1. A cell which is haploid.
2. An organism, such as a fungus, with haploid cells.

Translations

haploid cell

Finnish: haploidi (fi) Greek: απλοειδές n (aploeidés) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: xaneya haploîdî f Polish: haploid (pl) m Russian: гаплоид (ru) m (gaploid) Spanish: haploide (es) m Swedish: haploid (sv) c Ukrainian: гаплоїд m (haplojid)

Anagrams

• alphoid

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French haploïde.

Adjective

haploid m or n (feminine singular haploidă, masculine plural haploizi, feminine and neuter plural haploide)

1. (genetics) haploid

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	haploid		haploidă		haploizi	haploide
	definite	haploidul		haploida		haploizii	haploidele
genitive- dative	indefinite	haploid		haploide		haploizi	haploide
	definite	haploidului		haploidei		haploizilor	haploidelor