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-hedron

-hedron suffix: forms the names of solid figures bounded by a certain number of planes (polyhedra).

Suffix

-hedron (plural -hedra or -hedrons)

  1. Forms the names of solid figures bounded by a certain number of planes (polyhedra).

Forms of -hedron

plural-hedra
plural-hedrons

Origin of -hedron

From Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra, “face of a geometrical solid”).

Questions about -hedron

What does -hedron mean?
-hedron means forms the names of solid figures bounded by a certain number of planes (polyhedra).
What part of speech is -hedron?
-hedron is a suffix.

Words near -hedron in the dictionary

  1. -ham
  2. -head
  3. -heads
  4. -hedra
  5. -hedral
  6. -hedron
  7. -hedrons
  8. -henge
  9. -hod
  10. -holic
  11. -holism

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