Rhombohedron
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noun.
A prism with six faces, each a rhombus.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
In
geometry
and
crystallography
, a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
A
prism
with
six
faces
, each a
rhombus
.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun.
a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms)
Word Usage
"Its crystals have formed in a textbook rhodo shape--rhombohedron--very geometric, very distinct, with nice sharp, flat faces."
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
hexahedron
parallelepiped
parallelepipedon
parallelopiped
parallelopipedon
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
parallelopiped