Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tetraploid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables: tetraploid
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having four sets of chromosomes.

noun

A tetraploid cell.

noun

A tetraploid organism.

Example Sentences

"In potato, crosses between the tetraploid cultivated species Solanum tuberosum, and some clones of the diploid wild-type species S. phureja, constitute a method of producing maternal dihaploids."
"The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids ."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τετραπλός (tetraplós) + Ancient Greek είδος (eídos), equivalent to tetra- + -ploid.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: τετραπλός, είδος

Inflected Forms

tetraploids (plural)

Derived Forms

allotetraploid hypertetraploid hypotetraploid mesotetraploid neotetraploid paleotetraploid pseudotetraploid subtetraploid tetraploidization tetraploidy autotetraploid heterotetraploid

Frequently Paired Words

diploid polyploid

Questions

What does tetraploid mean?: Having four sets of chromosomes.
Where does tetraploid come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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