haploid

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

haplo- + -oid

Adjective

haploid (not comparable)

1. (cytology) Of a cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes, such as a gamete.

Translations

having a single set of unpaired chromosomes

• Catalan: haploide (ca)
• Czech: haploidní (cs)
• Finnish: haploidi (fi)
• French: haploïde (fr)
• German: haploid (de)
• Greek: απλοειδής (el) (aploeidís) m 
• Icelandic: einlitna (is)
• Japanese: 半数体の (ja) (はんすうたいの, hansūtai no)

• Russian: гаплоидный (ru) (gaplóidnyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ха̏плоӣдан (sh)

  Roman: hȁploīdan (sh)

• Spanish: haploide (es)
• Swedish: haploid (sv)
• Turkish: haploid (tr)

Derived terms

• haplodic
• haploidy

See also

• monoploid
• diploid
• polyploid
• tetraploid
• triploid

Noun

haploid (plural haploids)

1. A cell which is haploid; an organism, such as a fungus, with haploid cells.

Translations

haploid cell

• Finnish: haploidi (fi)
• Greek: απλοειδές (el) (aploeidés) n 

• Spanish: haploide (es) m
• Swedish: haploid (sv) c