sexangular

English

Alternative forms
  • sixangular

Etymology

Late Latin sexangularis, from sexangulus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sɛkˈsæŋɡjʊlə/

Adjective

sexangular (not comparable)

  1. Having six angles; hexagonal.
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 189:
      The sexangular Cels in the Honeycombs of Bees are disposed after this order.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
      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 […]

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