cuboctahedron

noun

cub·​octahedron

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variants or less commonly cubo-octahedron

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: one of the 13 Archimedean solids having as faces six equal squares and eight equal regular triangles and formed by cutting off the corners of a cube

Word History

Etymology

cub- + octahedron

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