tesseral

adjective

tes·​ser·​al

-sərəl

variants or less commonly tessular

-syələ(r)

1

: of, relating to, or resembling a tessera : tessellar

2

: having or constituting an isometric system : regular

a tesseral crystal

Word History

Etymology

tesseral from tessera + -al; tessular from (assumed) New Latin tessula (diminutive of Latin tessera) + English -ar

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