Strombus

A term meaning "spinning top" in Greek which was coined by J. H. Conway by e-mail in the Polyhedron Discussion List as a term for kite-shaped quadrilaterals. Formally, a strombus is a quadrilateral ABCD that has AC for an axis of symmetry.

See also

Diamond, Kite, Lozenge, Parallelogram, Quadrilateral, Rhomboid, Rhombus, Skew Quadrilateral, Trapezoid

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