noun.
A polyhedron with twelvefaces; the regular dodecahedron has regular pentagons as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.
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noun.
any polyhedron having twelve plane faces
Word Usage
"A dodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve faces, but usually a regular dodecahedron is meant: a Platonic solid composed of twelve regular pentagonal faces, with three meeting at each vertex."