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TETRASKELION
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Irregular inflected form: tetraskelia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A figure consisting of four stylized human arms or legs (or bent lines) radiating from a center
Synonyms:
tetraskele; tetraskelion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tetraskelion" is a kind of...):
design; figure; pattern (a decorative or artistic work)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tetraskelion"):
Hakenkreuz; swastika (the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction)
