/pol'ee hee"dreuhn/ , n. , pl. polyhedrons, polyhedra /-dreuh/ .
a solid figure having many faces. See illus. under dodecahedron, icosahedron, octahedron, pentahedron, tetrahedron .
[ 1560-70; polýedron, neut. of polýedros having many bases. See POLY-, -HEDRON ]