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pentahedra

pentahedra is the plural of pentahedron.

Meaning of pentahedron

Noun

pentahedron (plural pentahedra or pentahedrons)

  1. A polyhedron with five faces.
    • Their tent was too small for them to stand, a long but low pentahedron, in shape like the triangular glass prism Saeed used to have as a child, with which he would refract sunlight into little rainbows.2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 106

Questions about pentahedra

What is pentahedra the plural of?
Pentahedra is the plural of pentahedron.

Words near pentahedra in the dictionary

  1. pentagrids
  2. pentaguanine
  3. pentagynous
  4. pentahalide
  5. pentahalides
  6. pentahedra
  7. pentahedral
  8. pentahedrally
  9. pentahedrical
  10. pentahedron
  11. pentahedrons

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