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Dodecahedron
A 12-sided geometric solid, particularly one with 12 regular faces. According to Plato in the Timæus, the dodecahedron is the fifth natural solid, "a fifth figure (which is made out of twelve pentagons), the dodecahedron—this God used as a model for the twelvefold division of the Zodiac."
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