Contextualizebeta

sphenocorona

noun

Etymology

Blend of sphenoid + corona or from spheno- + corona. Coined by Norman W. Johnson in 1969.

  1. borrowed from La Corona
  2. derived from Corōna
  3. borrowed from corona — “crown”
  4. borrowed from corona
  5. borrowed from corona — “crown”
  6. borrowed from corona
  7. borrowed from corona — “crown, wreath”
  8. derived from corōna — “crown”
  9. compounded as sphenocorona — “sphenoid + corona”

Definitions

  1. A polyhedron, one of the Johnson solids, whose faces are composed of 12 equilateral…

    A polyhedron, one of the Johnson solids, whose faces are composed of 12 equilateral triangles and 2 squares.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sphenocorona. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA