Definition of Dodecahedra

1. Noun. (plural of dodecahedron) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dodecahedra

1. dodecahedron [n] - See also: dodecahedron

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodecahedra

doddles
doddy
dodeca-
dodecadactylum
dodecadic
dodecadodecahedra
dodecadodecahedron
dodecadodecahedrons
dodecaedron
dodecagon
dodecagonal
dodecagons
dodecagrid
dodecagynia
dodecagynous
dodecahedra (current term)
dodecahedral
dodecahedrane
dodecahedron
dodecahedrons
dodecahydrate
dodecahydrates
dodecamer
dodecameric
dodecamers
dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane
dodecandria
dodecandrous
dodecane
dodecanes

Literary usage of Dodecahedra

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"Small dodecahedra in granular limestone with pyroxene. ... Beautiful honey-yellow and green dodecahedra in cavities of a massive greenish pyroxene ..."

2. The Silver Bromide Grain of Photographic Emulsions by Adrian Peter Herman Trivelli, Samuel Edward Sheppard (1921)
"The pentagonal dodecahedra obtained by cooling the ammoniacal solution are so important ... _ Unfortunately, the combinations of pentagonal dodecahedra and ..."

3. A Treatise on Crystallography by William James Lewis (1899)
"We take first the twinned dihedral pentagonal dodecahedra IT {210} of pyrites ... The two dodecahedra interpenetrate one another more or less regularly, ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1836)
"The triangular solid angles of four ordinate dodecahedra may meet at a point, ... If the central mass of approximate dodecahedra should be a little ..."

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