Bipyramidal
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
In
crystallography
, having the form of two pyramids joined base to base, as quartz crystals.
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adjective.
Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.
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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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