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  1. n. geometry Any one of the following five polyhedra: the regular tetrahedron, the cube, the regular octahedron, the regular dodecahedron and the regular icosahedron.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent

Etymologies

  1. Named after the Greek philosopher Plato, who wrote about these solids in his treatise Timaeus. (Wiktionary)

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  1. polyhedron

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  1. regular icosahedron
  1. regular hexahedron
  1. regular dodecahedron
  1. regular tetrahedron
  1. cube
  1. regular octahedron

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  1. triakisicosahedron

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