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单词 sexangular
释义 sexangular, a.|sɛkˈsæŋgjʊlə(r)|
[ad. late L. sexangulār-is, f. sexangulus: see sexangle.]
Having six angles; hexagonal.
1608Topsell Serpents 94 If you eye well their [sc. hornets'] nestes, you shall finde them all for the most part exactly sexangular or sixe cornered.1637Wotton Will in Walton Life (1670) 71 Item, A piece of Christal Sexangular, (as they grow all).1701Grew Cosm. Sacra i. iii. §27. 15 The known Figure of Nitre, is a Sexangular Prisme.1860Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 25 The Beacon is sexangular.1880Günther Fishes 344 Teeth sexangular.
So seˈxangularly adv., in a sexangular form; seˈxangulary a. = sexangular a.
1658R. White tr. Digby's Disc. Cure Wounds (ed. 2) 72 Armoniac salt [doth form it self] in Hexagons of six points, as the snow doth, which is sexangulary.1681Grew Musæum i. iii. 35 Cancellated with little squares..on the top of the back, sexangularly.1701Cosm. Sacra i. iii. §21. 14 Diamonds are often sexangularly pointed.
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