Meanings
adjectivehaplodiploid (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyIn which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera
Curiously, female sweat bees, as 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.
2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 60
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*sm̥-
- Proto-Hellenic*hə-
- Ancient Greekᾰ̔- (hă-)
- Ancient Greekᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos)
- Englishhaplo-
- Englishdiploid
- Englishhaplodiploid
Translations
French haplodiploïde
- haplodiploïdein which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid
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APA
haplodiploid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/haplodiploid
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“haplodiploid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/haplodiploid. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
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