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dodecahedron

/ˌdoʊ.dɛk.əˈhiː.dɹən/

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noun

  1. A polyhedron with twelve faces; the regular dodecahedron has regular pentagons as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.

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The fifth regular solid, or dodecahedron, cannot be formed by a combination of either of these triangles, but each of its faces may be regarded as composed of thirty triangles of another kind.
PlatoTimaeusTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1572
Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.
Peter Mark RogetRoget's ThesaurusProject Gutenberg ebook #22