Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sixsided, but not forming a regular hexagon.
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- adjective Not quite
hexagonal ; approaching a hexagonal shape.
Etymologies
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sub- + hexagonal
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Examples
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Both have their seeds originally naked; both are cone-bearing; both possess discs on the sides of their cellules; and in both, in the transverse section, these cellules are subhexagonal, and radiate from a centre.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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