regular dodecahedron

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regular dodecahedron - a dodecahedron with twelve regular pentagons as faces

ideal solid, Platonic body, Platonic solid, regular convex polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular polyhedron - any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent

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The regular dodecahedron, on the other hand, is simple but it is the first of the five regular convex polyhedra that is not rational.

Toric Geometry of the Regular Convex Polyhedra

Actually, the regular dodecahedron offers better visual possibilities than the pentagon.

Gerard Caris informs in an aesthetic format

In the three dimensional Euclidean space, there are just five types of regular polyhedrons: a regular tetrahedron, cube, regular octahedron, regular dodecahedron and a regular icosahedron.