haplodiploid

English

Etymology

haplo- +‎ diploid

Adjective

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.

Translations

Noun

haplodiploid (plural haplodiploids)

  1. Such an organism
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