nonahedral
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nonahedral (not comparable)
- Synonym of enneahedral
- 1971, Calvin J. Heusser, Pollen and Spores of Chile: Modern Types of the Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, and Angiospermae, Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, page 31, column 2:
- Evolvulus arizonica A. Gray — Monad, apolar; pericolpate, colpi located along the edges of the faces, numbering 15 in the heptahedral type, 18 in the octahedral, and 21 in the nonahedral;
- 1971, Magnus J. Wenninger, “Non-convex polyhedra (67–109)”, in Polyhedron Models, Cambridge University Press, published 1988, →ISBN, →LCCN, section III (Non-convex Uniform Polyhedra), polyhedron 103 (Great rhombihexahedron), page 159:
- The tetrahedral dimples and dihedral grooves of that solid are here replaced with deeper nonahedral cups and tetrahedral dimples.
- 1976, Nigel Kneale, The Year of the Sex Olympics, and Other TV Plays, Ferret Fantasy Ltd, page 95:
- He is still far from being a square peg in a round hole say, a decahedral peg in a nonahedral hole.