triskaidekahedron

English

Noun

triskaidekahedron (plural triskaidekahedrons)

  1. Alternative spelling of triskaidecahedron
    • 1977, R. A. Lafferty, Apocalypses:
      The clock room was in the shape of a perfect triskaidekahedron, a thirteen-sided figure.
    • 1989, Modern Biology, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 65:
      Many plant cells, for example, are shaped like triskaidekahedrons; that is, they are roughly round but have 13 flat sides.
    • 2013, D.L.C. Maclachlan, The Enigma of Perception, McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 55:
      No doubt you are now acquiring the concept of a regular triskaidekahedron, or plane figure with thirteen equal sides, because I have just used the word.
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