triploid
- s of a cell or organism having three complete sets of chromosomes
human triploid fetuses are usually spontaneously aborted
- The second, more likely possibility is that the egg fused with two sperm cells and created a triploid cell.
- In Arizona a mutant Chinese grass carp, the sterile triploid amur, has been released into the ponds and water hazards of golf courses to keep the water free of entangling weeds .
- For instance, the triploid oyster, still in the experimental phase, is rendered sterile with antibiotics and thus does not go through an uneatable mating phase; it is harvestable .