01 n. A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
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A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.(Crystallog.)
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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!”