decaploidadj.
/ˈdɛkəplɔɪd/ Biology.
(See quot. 1940.)
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1932 F. W. Sansome & J. L. Philp Recent Adv. in Plant Genetics v. 165 In the first case the species with the highest chromosome number has ten sets as the basic number of the genus (decaploid).
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 227/2 Decaploid, having ten times the haploid number of chromosomes.
1946 Ann. Reg. 1945 351 In the U.S.S.R. Zhebrak has worked on the properties of..decaploid wheats with seventy chromosomes.
1946 Nature 17 Aug. 239/2 Since the basic haploid number of Artemia salina is known to be 21, the present race must be considered as decaploid with a slight augmentation of the number of 105 tetrads.
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