sexangular
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Etymology
Late Latin sexangularis, from sexangulus.
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Adjective
sexangular (not comparable)
- Having six angles; hexagonal.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 189:
- The sexangular Cels in the Honeycombs of Bees are disposed after this order.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
- Hence could I also very easily, and I think truly, deduce the cause of the curious sixangular figures of Snow, and the appearances of Haloes, &c. and the sudden thickning of the Sky with Clouds […]
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