(of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form, except for the gametes, is diploid.Compare with haplontic and diplohaplontic.
Derivatives
diplont
noun
Origin:
1920s: from diplo- 'double' + Greek on, ont- 'being' (from einai 'be, exist') + -ic
diplontic in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of diplontic in the US English dictionary
