diploid /(dĭp"loid)/

dip·loid

diploid

n.
  1. A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron. (Crystallog.)
  2. a cell or organism having a number of chromosomes corresponding to two copies of each chromosome; a diploid cell or organism. (Biol.)
    A: I'm not interested in diploids. B: Oh, how I wish your parents had felt the same way!

diploid

a.
  1. having a number of chromosomes corresponding to two copies of each chromosome; having double the basic number of chromosomes, as seen in a haploid cell. Contrasted to haploid and polyploid. (Biol.)