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pentagonal

/pɛnˈtæɡənəl/

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What does pentagonal mean?

adjective

  1. Of, relating to, or shaped like a pentagon.

noun

  1. Something having the shape of a pentagon.

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IPA pronunciation

/pɛnˈtæɡənəl/

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The most common form for the construction of a house is five-sided or pentagonal, as in the annexed figure.
Edwin Abbott AbbottFlatland: A Romance of Many DimensionsProject Gutenberg ebook #97
FACE: Five Kalabits have pentagonal faces, being rather broad in 3, 2 were long and rather narrow, the jaws are narrow in 2.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
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You will dredge, too, the twelve-rayed sun-star (Solaster papposa), with his rich scarlet armour; and more strange, and quite as beautiful, the bird’s foot star (Palmipes membranaceus), which you may see crawling by its thousand sucking-feet in the Crystal Palace tanks, a pentagonal webbed bird’s foot, of scarlet and orange shagreen.
Charles KingsleyGlaucus; Or, The Wonders of the ShoreProject Gutenberg ebook #695