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haploid (adj.)
"having a single set of unpaired chromosomes," 1908, from German
haploid
(Strasburger, 1905), from Greek
haploos
"single, simple" (see
haplo-
) +
-ploid
, from comb. form of
ploos
"fold" (see
fold
(v.)) +
-oid
.
