In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The spheres are covered bytessellatingsquares and have a single curved door which opens outwards to reveal the ship's only room, a control room.
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Honeycombs are famous for thetessellatinghexagons they use.
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She developed her own system of notation and used it to discover three new types oftessellatingpentagons and over sixty distinct tessellations by pentagons by 1977.
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