sexangular, a.
(sɛkˈsæŋgjʊlə(r))
[ad. late L. sexangulār-is, f. sexangulus: see sexangle.]
Having six angles; hexagonal.
| 1608 Topsell Serpents 94 If you eye well their [sc. hornets'] nestes, you shall finde them all for the most part exactly sexangular or sixe cornered. 1637 Wotton Will in Walton Life (1670) 71 Item, A piece of Christal Sexangular, (as they grow all). 1701 Grew Cosm. Sacra i. iii. §27. 15 The known Figure of Nitre, is a Sexangular Prisme. 1860 Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 25 The Beacon is sexangular. 1880 Günther Fishes 344 Teeth sexangular. |
So † seˈxangularly adv., in a sexangular form; † seˈxangulary a. = sexangular a.
| 1658 R. White tr. Digby's Disc. Cure Wounds (ed. 2) 72 Armoniac salt [doth form it self] in Hexagons of six points, as the snow doth, which is sexangulary. 1681 Grew Musæum i. iii. 35 Cancellated with little squares..on the top of the back, sexangularly. 1701 ― Cosm. Sacra i. iii. §21. 14 Diamonds are often sexangularly pointed. |