English
heterotetraploid
From hetero- + tetraploid.
Formed from hetero- + tetraploid
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 tetraploid but whose strands are not all the same
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Etymograph / heterotetraploid