RHOMBOHEDRON

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("rhombohedron" is a kind of...):

parallelepiped; parallelepipedon; parallelopiped; parallelopipedon (a prism whose bases are parallelograms)

hexahedron (any polyhedron having six plane faces)

Derivation:

rhombohedral (having threefold symmetry)

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