Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having five angles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having five angles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having five corners or angles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
five corners orangles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon
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Examples
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It consists of a boatload of pentangular cards, each side of which hold a word and a value.
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It consists of a boatload of pentangular cards, each side of which hold a word and a value.
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They were covered in great hallucinatory blossoms, pentangular in form.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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About the two points found in the lower level, Kimball said that their roughly pentangular form appears to be the intended shape, that is, they were not re-worked over time to that shape.
Cactus Hill Update 2000
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They were covered in great hallucinatory blossoms, pentangular in form.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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One long seed enclosed within the calyx, pentangular, covered with a membranaceous skin.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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[MICROCRINUS CONOIDEUS] Body conical; sub-pentangular at base; areas five, oblique; pores six or seven to each, alternating and arranged in rows, separated by a ridge; apical pores five, base wide; beneath concave; concavity intersected by five bars, which descend and meet in the center; spaces between, triangular, terminating above in the apical pores.
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They were brown, and pentangular, with a short stem, and slightly punctured at the intersections.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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They were brown and pentangular, with a short stem, and slightly punctured at the intersections.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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[GONIOCLYPEUS SUBANGULATUS] somewhat pentangular; posterior or anal orifice lateral, or upon the superior face; interambulacral area grooved, with the continued area beneath projecting; interambulacral areas sub-angulated; mouth rather narrow or small, central; peristome angular, and surrounded by five angular prominences, which terminate in the interambulacral areas, between which is a rosette, perforated by seven pairs of pores, with three odd ones at the end of each petal; ambulacra petaloid and closed; the prolonged zone provided with alternating pores as far as the base; pores connected by oblique grooves; interambulacral wide; plates large, and nine or ten in a column.
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