sexangular

/sɛkˈsæŋɡjʊlə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"The sexangular Cels in the Honeycombs of Bees are disposed after this order."
"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 […]"

From Late Latin sexangulāris, from sexangulus. By surface analysis, sex- + -angular. Piecewise doublet of hexangular.

sixangular (alternative)

sexangularly

sexangle

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How do you pronounce sexangular?

The recorded pronunciation is /sɛkˈsæŋɡjʊlə/.

What does sexangular mean?

Having six angles; hexagonal.

Where does sexangular come from?

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