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adj. - Of or relating to or shaped like an eight-sided figure.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Traditionally, the bread is baked in octagonal or hexagonal pans, but just about any shape or size can be used.
  • Daoud recalled the octagonal shape of Castello Lucera's central tower.
  • I went on up the street to the end, where it came to some kind of octagonal plaza.
  • Books had been piling up in there, and there's a lot of funky space in our bathroom (It's kind of octagonal) that doesn't get used.
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