scalenohedron
[ skey-lee-nuh-hee-druhn ]
noun,plural sca·le·no·he·drons, sca·le·no·he·dra [skey-lee-nuh-hee-druh]. /skeɪˌli nəˈhi drə/. Crystallography.
a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
Origin of scalenohedron
1Other words from scalenohedron
- sca·le·no·he·dral, adjective
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How to use scalenohedron in a sentence
Tetragonal scalenohedron or ditetragonal bisphenoid (fig. 51).
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