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PRISMATOID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A polyhedron whose vertices all lie in one or the other of two parallel planes; the faces that lie in those planes are the bases of the prismatoid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("prismatoid" is a kind of...):
polyhedron (a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prismatoid"):
prismoid (a prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms)