polyhedron vs regular convex polyhedron

regular convex polyhedron vs polyhedron

polyhedron and regular convex polyhedron both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
polyhedron	Yes	No	No	No
regular convex polyhedron	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, regular convex polyhedron is a hyponym of polyhedron; that is, regular convex polyhedron is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than polyhedron:

polyhedron: a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces
regular convex polyhedron: any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent

Other hyponyms of polyhedron include convex polyhedron, concave polyhedron, prism, pyramid, tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, decahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, ideal solid, Platonic body, Platonic solid, regular convex solid, regular polyhedron, prismatoid, trapezohedron.

polyhedron (noun)	regular convex polyhedron (noun)
a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces	any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent

Difference between polyhedron and regular convex polyhedron

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