sexangular

English

Alternative forms

• sixangular

Etymology

Late Latin sexangularis, from sexangulus.

• sex- +‎ angular

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛkˈsæŋɡjʊlə/

Adjective

sexangular (not comparable)

1. Having six angles; hexagonal.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 189:

     The sexangular Cels in the Honeycombs of Bees are disposed after this order.

   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:

     Hence could I also very easily, and I think truly, deduce the cause of the curious sixangular figures of Snow, and the appearances of Haloes, &c. and the sudden thickning of the Sky with Clouds […]

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