Word of the Day:
pentahedron
What It Means
A polyhedron with five faces.
Pentahedron in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From penta- + -hedron.
Source and license
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