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Symmetrical
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.
2. Having the organs or parts of one side correspponding with those of the other; having the parts in two or more series of organs the same in number; exhibiting a symmetry.See Symmetry, 2.
3. Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers.
4. Having a likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regular.
5. Having a common measure; commensurable.
6. Having corresponding parts or relations.