The originally jocular name arose from their perceived similarity to the cylindrical and hexagonal boxes in which medical pills were once sold.

There were stacks and stacks of little hexagonal Heechee-metal boxes, all sealed.

It was a stack of hexagonal boxes made out of Heechee metal, not more than half a meter across and less than a meter tall.

On the east and west sides of the ground level the field cobbles are set in the Gaines Pattern, in which each is part of a small hexagonal box.

The hexagonal box is made of one piece of card which is diecut then folded and glued.

The components come in a hexagonal box made to look like a 3D image of a die.

A hexagonal box that divides into two compartments, "Spring of Tempyo," is made of a deep purple glass background layered with platinium and gold specks.

Unlocking the lowest of four drawers, he produced a hexagonal box made of a dull grey metal alloy.

Its fuselage was a pine framed, plywood covered hexagonal box, with the straight edged fin an integral part.

When they got back to their apartment they found a stack of hexagonal boxes, great and small, just inside the door.