diploid

• ⇰ A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
• ⇰ a cell or organism having a number of chromosomes corresponding to two copies of each chromosome; a diploid cell or organism.

• ⇰ having a number of chromosomes corresponding to two copies of each chromosome; having double the basic number of chromosomes, as seen in a haploid cell. Contrasted to <contr>haploid</contr> and <contr>polyploid</contr>.