haplodiploid

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English

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Etymology

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From haplo- +‎ diploid.

Adjective

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haplodiploid (not comparable)

  1. (biology, of a species) In which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera
    • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 60:
      Curiously, female sweat bees, are are most others bees, wasps, and ants in the order Hymenoptera, are haplodiploid organisms, in which fertilized eggs become female young and unfertilized eggs become males.

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Noun

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haplodiploid (plural haplodiploids)

  1. Such an organism