Crossword-Solution: TRAPEZIA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

The figures inscribed and circumscribed to the segment are made up of such narrow strips and have a saw-like edge; all the elements are trapezia except two, which are triangles, one in each figure.

And let all quadrilaterals other than these be called trapezia._ In this definition Euclid also specializes in a manner not now generally approved.

The BILANDER is particularly distinguished from other vessels of two masts by the form of her main-sail, which is a sort of trapezia, the yard thereof being hung obliquely on the mast in the plane of the ship’s length, and the aftmost or hinder end peeked or raised up to an angle of about 45 degrees, and hanging immediately over the stern; while the fore end slopes downward, and comes as far forward as the middle of the ship.

The figure of the mizen is accordingly a trapezia, or a parallelogram, one of whose corners is cut off by a diagonal, extended from one of its sides to the opposite corner, which becomes the _peek_ of the mizen.

Its occurrence in the pharyngeal muscles and jaws of other genera may be due to the constant state of activity in which these organs are kept.[279] According to Tenison-Woods[280] a species of _Arca_ (_trapezia_ Desh.) and two species of _Solen_, all Australian, have red blood.