haplodiploid en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Hellenic *hə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̔- (hă-) Ancient Greek -πλόος (-plóos) Ancient Greek ᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos)der. English haplo- English diploid English haplodiploid From haplo- + diploid.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of a species) In which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera
Curiously, female sweat bees, as are most others bees, wasps, and ants in the order Hymenoptera, are haplodiploid organisms, in which fertilized eggs become female young and unfertilized eggs become males.
2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 60:
Translations (1)
fr haplodiploïde (in which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid)