The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dodecahedral \Do*dec`a*he"dral\, a. Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides.
Dodecahedral cleavage. See under Cleavage.
Wiktionary
a. having twelve plane surfaces
Usage examples of "dodecahedral".
But overall he saw that the limbs picked out something like a W shape, like the Cassiopeia constellation, centered on a dodecahedral core.
They all seemed to be based on the design of the type he had first met, with that chunky dodecahedral body, limbs sprouting in a variety of configurations, apparently specialized.
That dodecahedral core, fat and compact, must have been a couple of meters across.
A dodecahedral central unit sprouted arms, eight or ten of them, that articulated as it moved.
From space, the machines looked like spiders: dodecahedral bodies maybe fifty meters wide, with eight or ten articulated limbs, working steadily at this open wound in the skin of Earth.
Complex passageways existed between the modules that were grouped in a dodecahedral array.
The sky was full of dodecahedral frameworks, triangular faces glimmering, drifting like angular soap bubbles.
Here, a body, a spiderlike form of many limbs, a dodecahedral box at the center.
He looked for Cassiopeia, for any of the Gaijin, reassuring dodecahedral bulks.
Dodecahedral shapes swarmed over its flanks, reduced by distance to toylike specks, fast-moving, intent, purposeful.