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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 faces
Familiarity information: ICOSAHEDRON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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