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The eggs that the female fur-fowl lays are soft-shelled like the eggs of a turtle or a snake, but, instead of being round or elliptical in shape, the fur-fowl eggs are hexahedral.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the masses of ice which he describes was crystallised in prisms of various numbers of sides: of these prisms the greater part were hexahedral and irregular.

From Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by Browne, G. F. (George Forrest)

They were hexahedral prisms, terminated with pyramids, fourteen lines long and eight thick.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

Am′ethyst, a violet-blue or purple variety of quartz, generally occurring crystallized in hexahedral prisms or pyramids, also in rolled fragments, composed of imperfect prismatic crystals.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

The crystals of both are almost invariably regular hexahedral prisms, sometimes slightly modified.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 by Various