Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentact
Literary usage of Pentact
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"... a pentact or hexact in which one ray bears oblique lateral teeth or prickles (Fig.
78, 7). ... The dermal and gastral skeletons contain pentact or ..."
2. Seaside Studies in Natural History by Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Alexander Agassiz (1865)
"... under stones at low-water mark, just after they have given up their nomadic
habits, and when the limestone pavement begins to be developed. pentact-a. ..."
3. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"... Importance of the Common Ontogenetic Larva-form: pentact ula. THE great natural
main groups of the animal kingdom, which we have distinguished as tribes ..."
4. A History of British Star-fishes, and Other Animals of the Class Echinodermata by Edward Forbes (1841)
"2, The pentact^E, which have the suckers arranged in five regular rows, and are
more or less angular in form. ..."
5. Geometry of Four Dimensions by Henry Parker Manning (1914)
"... belongs to a terminology in which the name of a figure designates the number
of its axes: pentact, a figure with five axes, ..."
6. The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1904)
"Their historical development is perfectly understood from its earliest stages,
since Richard Semon found, in his ingenious pentact ..."
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