The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word TRAPEZIUM
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More clues leading to the result TRAPEZIUM
- Shape being mature, zip coming undone
- Figure Trump a bum to hug his outspoken easy one
- Figure offered by corporation accepting a prize novel
- I put maze in new arrangement, including hint of rectangular shape
- Almost swing over atrium, half- splitting wrist bone
- Small bone mirror in Ritz adjusted by posh maiden
- Seconds away, a prize must be arranged in a shape
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What does TRAPEZIUM mean?
TRAPEZIUM noun- A four-sided polygon with two sides parallel
- A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
- The trapezium bone of the wrist.
- A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.