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A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.

A Linnæan order of plants having twelve styles.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles.

Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides. Dodecahedral cleavage. See under Cleavage.

A solid having twelve faces.

A Linnæan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.

Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.

A dodecastyle portico, or building.

Having twelve syllables.

A word consisting of twelve syllables.

A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron.

Consisting of twelve years. [R.] Ash.

A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.

Divided into twelve parts.

Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.

Consisting of twelves. Arbuthnot.

Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.

Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.