RHOMBOHEDRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhombohedron mean? 

• RHOMBOHEDRON (noun)
  The noun RHOMBOHEDRON has 1 sense:

1. a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHOMBOHEDRON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

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

parallelepiped; parallelepipedon; parallelopiped; parallelopipedon (a prism whose bases are parallelograms)

hexahedron (any polyhedron having six plane faces)

Derivation:

rhombohedral (having threefold symmetry)