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Noun: heteroploid  'he-tu-row,ployd
  1. (genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species
    "Some cancer cells are heteroploid, with abnormal chromosome numbers"

Derived forms: heteroploids

Type of: being, organism