sexangular
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Late Latin sexangulāris, from sexangulus. By surface analysis, sex- + -angular. Piecewise doublet of hexangular.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛkˈsæŋɡjʊlə/
Adjective
sexangular (not comparable)
- Having six angles; hexagonal.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 189:
- The sexangular Cels in the Honeycombs of Bees are disposed after this order.
- 1665, R[obert] Hooke, Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
- Hence could I also very easily, and I think truly, deduce the cause of the curious sixangular figures of Snow, and the appearances of Haloes, &c. and the sudden thickning of the Sky with Clouds […]