hectagon

English

Etymology

From hect- +‎ -a- +‎ -gon.

Noun

hectagon (plural hectagons)

1. Alternative form of hectogon (“a polygon with 100 edges, vertices, and angles”).
2. Misspelling of hexagon.
3. Misspelling of heptagon.

Quotations

• 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):

  Half a dozen farm-estates formed a hectagon around it

Related terms

• hectagonal

Anagrams

• T'ao-ch'eng, Taocheng