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dip·lont (dip′länt′)

noun

an animal or plant whose somatic nuclei are diploid

Etymology: < dipl(o)- + -ont, a cell, organism (< Gr ontos: see onto-)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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