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RHOMBOHEDRON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("rhombohedron" is a kind of...):
parallelepiped; parallelepipedon; parallelopiped; parallelopipedon (a prism whose bases are parallelograms)
hexahedron (any polyhedron having six plane faces)
Derivation:
rhombohedral (having threefold symmetry)
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