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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a chromosome number that is not a whole-number multiple of the haploid chromosome number of a given species.
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- adjective biology Having a
chromosome number that is neither thehaploid nor thediploid number normal in thespecies .
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- noun (genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species
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