geminate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Etymology
Origin of geminate
1590–1600; < Latin geminātus doubled (past participle of gemināre ), equivalent to gemin- double + -ātus -ate 1
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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
V. double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
Rottboellia.Sessile spikelets geminate in all except the uppermost joints 26.
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.
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
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