six-sidedadj.
Having six sides; hexagonal.
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sexangled1517
six-squarec1530
siseangled1557
hexagonal1571
hexagonian1598
sexangular1608
hexagonial1623
hexagonical1657
hexangle1657
sexangulary1658
hexangular1665
six-sided1693
sexagonal1750
hexagon1754
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 756 Some were pyramidal, constituted on a six-sided Basis.
1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 739/2 Prisms, terminated by six-sided pyramids.
1821 R. Jameson Man. Mineral. 194 Its most frequent crystallization is the acute six-sided pyramid.
1859 T. H. Huxley Oceanic Hydrozoa 65 Hydrophyllium six-sided.
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 58 These shapes usually look like little six-sided towers..terminated at one end..by a short six-sided spire.
Derivatives
six-sidedness n.
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six-sidedness1883
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World 371 There is a six-sidedness, as it were, in the very nature of this substance.
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