FromAncient Greekτετραπλός(tetraplós) +Ancient Greekείδος(eídos), equivalent totetra- +-ploid.
tetraploid (notcomparable)
- (genetics) Having four sets ofchromosomes.
1998, C. Horlow, C. Raquin, “A Critical Analysis of Existing Haploidization Techniques”, in Y[ves] Chupeau,M[ichel] Caboche, Y[ves] Henry, editors,Androgenesis and Haploid Plants: […] In Memory of Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Berlin, Heidelberg:Springer-Verlag,→ISBN,page14:In potato, crosses between thetetraploid cultivated speciesSolanum tuberosum, and some clones of the diploid wild-type speciesS. phureja, constitute a method of producing maternal dihaploids.
having four sets of chromosomes
tetraploid (pluraltetraploids)
- A tetraploidcell.
- A tetraploidorganism.
1995, Romuald Kosina,Tetraploids of the Genus Triticum in the Light of Caryopsis Structure:The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheattetraploids .
