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ICOSAHEDRON (icosahedra)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does icosahedron mean? 

ICOSAHEDRON (noun)
  The noun ICOSAHEDRON has 1 sense:

1. any polyhedron having twenty plane facesplay

  Familiarity information: ICOSAHEDRON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ICOSAHEDRON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any polyhedron having twenty plane faces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("icosahedron" is a kind of...):

polyhedron (a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces)

Derivation:

icosahedral (of or relating to an icosahedron)


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