Meanings
- not comparableSynonym of enneahedral.
He is still far from being a square peg in a round hole say, a decahedral peg in a nonahedral hole.
1976, Nigel Kneale, The Year of the Sex Olympics, and Other TV Plays, Ferret Fantasy Ltd, page 952 more examples
Evolvulus arizonica A. Gray — Monad, apolar; pericolpate, colpi located along the edges of the faces, numbering 15 in the heptahedral type, 18 in the octahedral, and 21 in the nonahedral;
1971, Calvin J. Heusser, Pollen and Spores of Chile: Modern Types of the Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, and Angiospermae, Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, page 31, column 2The tetrahedral dimples and dihedral grooves of that solid are here replaced with deeper nonahedral cups and tetrahedral dimples.
1971, Magnus J. Wenninger, “Non-convex polyhedra (67–109)”, in Polyhedron Models, Cambridge University Press, published 1988, →ISBN, →LCCN, section III (Non-convex Uniform Polyhedra), polyhedron 103 (Great rhombihexahedron), page 159Synonyms: enneahedral
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of enneahedral.
Origin
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