Usually means: Half the usual chromosome number.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. haploid: Merriam-Webster
  2. haploid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. haploid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. haploid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. haploid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Haploid, haploid: Wordnik
  7. haploid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. haploid: Wiktionary
  9. haploid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. haploid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. haploid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. haploid: Dictionary.com
  13. Haploid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. haploid: Rhymezone
  15. haploid: FreeDictionary.org
  16. haploid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. haploid: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haploid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. haploid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Haploid: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  6. haploid: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  7. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  8. haploid: Medical dictionary
  9. Haploid: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bryological (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  7. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  8. haploid: Evolution Glossary
  9. haploid: Natural History Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (haploid)

adjective:  (genetics, loosely) Having the number of chromosomes that a typical gamete has (in the given organism), namely, half the number that a typical somatic cell has (in the given organism).
adjective:  (genetics, strictly) Having a single set of unpaired chromosomes (which is the number that a typical gamete has in many organisms although not all).
noun:  A cell which is haploid.
noun:  An organism, such as a fungus, with haploid cells.

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