bipyramid
Noun
Meaning
bipyramid (plural bipyramids)
A dipyramid.
Examples
A concave bipyramid has a concave interior polygon. : The face-transitive regular bipyramids are the dual polyhedra of the uniform prisms and will generally have isosceles triangle faces.
An extra axial straw is added which doesn't exist in the simple polyhedron An n-gonal bipyramid or dipyramid is a polyhedron formed by joining an n-gonal pyramid and its mirror image base-to-base.
A regular icosahedron is a gyroelongated pentagonal bipyramid and a biaugmented pentagonal antiprism in any of six orientations.
In this nomenclature, an octahedron would be a square bipyramid, a cuboctahedron would be a triangular gyrobicupola, and an icosidodecahedron would be a pentagonal gyrobirotunda.
The second type is a rhombic bipyramid.