Octahedral

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having eight plane surfaces.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having eight plane surfaces; thus, in the shape or form of an octahedron.
  • adj. Of, or pertaining to octahedra.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having eight faces or sides; of, pertaining to, or formed in, octahedrons.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having eight equal surfaces or faces.
  • Word Usage
    "Rutile is made up mostly of titanium dioxide with two rarer polymorphs anatase or octahedrite, which is a tetragonal mineral of pseudo-octahedral habit, and brookite, which is an orthorhombic mineral, the Doctor explained to her."
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