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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In crystallography, a pentagonal dodecahedron (see
dodecahedron ); a solid contained by twelve pentagons: a common form with pyrite, whence the name. It is the hemihedral form of the tetrahexahedron.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Crystallog.) The pentagonal dodecahedron, a common form of pyrite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mathematics an
irregular dodecahedron , consisting ofidentical but irregularpentagons - noun the shape of a
crystal ofpyrite
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