geminate

American  

[jem-uh-neyt, jem-uh-nit, -neyt] / ˈdʒɛm əˌneɪt, ˈdʒɛm ə nɪt, -ˌneɪt /

verb (used with or without object)

geminated, geminating

1. to make or become doubled or paired.

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adjective

1. Also geminated. combined or arranged in pairs; twin; coupled.

noun

1. Phonetics. a doubled consonant sound.

geminate British  

adjective

1. combined in pairs; doubled

   a geminate leaf

   a geminate consonant

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verb

1. to arrange or be arranged in pairs

   the ``t''s in ``fitted'' are geminated

Other Word Forms

• geminately adverb
• nongeminate adjective

Etymology

Origin of geminate

1590–1600; < Latin geminātus doubled (past participle of gemināre ), equivalent to gemin- double + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

He believed that the words marriage, freedom, fortune, which he had put into her mind, would geminate and flower into wishes by which he could profit; he imagined that her coldness was mere dissimulation.

From The Alkahest by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

Mouth-spots two, or one, with a distinct construction; flagella symmetrically arranged; nucleus bilobed or geminate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

Rottboellia.Sessile spikelets geminate in all except the uppermost joints 26.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Male spikelets are geminate, one sessile and one pedicelled, 2-flowered or imperfect, and with four glumes, which are subequal.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The spikelets are small, 1/20 to 1/14 inch, geminate, one short and the other long pedicelled, appressed to the rachis, elliptic, silky with slender crisped hairs, pale green or purplish.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.