English
heteroploid
From hetero- + -ploid.
A compound of hetero- + -ploid
Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος ‘other, another, different’
English hetero-
Today it means
adj Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / heteroploid