Bipyramidal

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In crystallography, having the form of two pyramids joined base to base, as quartz crystals.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having the shape of a bipyramid
  • Word Usage
    "Like a routine play nine hundred and ninety eight spindly human figures stepped forth onto the walls and filed towards the black emptiness arranged around the Core in what a chemist or mathematician might call tetrahedral bipyramidal form."
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