Usually means: Five sets of chromosomes per cell.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. pentaploid: Merriam-Webster
  2. pentaploid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pentaploid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pentaploid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pentaploid: Wiktionary
  6. pentaploid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. pentaploid: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. pentaploid: Dictionary.com
  9. pentaploid: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pentaploid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pentaploid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pentaploid: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See pentaploidy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pentaploid)

adjective:  (genetics) That has five haploid sets of chromosomes
noun:  A cell or organism with five haploid sets of chromosomes.

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