tetrakisdodecahedronn.
Crystallography.
A solid body bounded by forty-eight triangular planes; also called hexakisoctahedron n. at hexakis- comb. form , octakis-hexahedron, tetrakonta-octahedron, and forty-eight scalenohedron; esp. the variety of this described in quot. 1895.
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tripyramid1828
trisoctahedron1837
fluoroid1850
sphenoid1855
discalenohedron1872
prism1878
tetrakis-hexahedron1878
galenoid1882
macroprism1883
semi-form1895
tetartohedron1895
tetrakisdodecahedron1895
trichite1900
1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. 204 The complete form has the character of a pyramidion developement of the rhomb-dodecahedron, each face of the latter figure being surmounted by a rhomb-based pyramid, to which it forms a conterminous base. These therefore are the forms that may be correctly designated as tetrakisdodecahedra or dodecahedrid pyramidious.
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