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OCTAHEDRON

Volume 15 · 44 words · 1810 Edition

Octaedron, in Geometry, one of the five regular bodies, consisting of eight equal and equilateral triangles.

Octandra (ὀκτά "eight," and ἄνθος "a man or husband?") the 8th class in Linnaeus's sexual system; consisting of plants which are furnished with eight stamens. See Botany Index.