haplodiploid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. In which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera
noun
  1. Such an organism

Word forms

haplodiploid haplodiploids

Etymology

From haplo- + diploid.

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