Geminate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Geminate \Gem"i*nate\, a. [L. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to
     double. See {Gemini}.] (Bot.)
     In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate
     flowers. --Gray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Geminate \Gem"i*nate\, v. t.
     To double. [R.] --B. Jonson.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  geminate
       n : a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a
           geminate"
       v 1: form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a
            short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to
            emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: {reduplicate}]
       2: occur in pairs [syn: {pair}]
       3: arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers" [syn: {pair}]
       4: arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated
          in these words"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "geminate":
     Janus-like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral,
     binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, conduplicate, copy, disomatous,
     ditto, double, double-faced, dual, dupe, duple, duplex, duplicate,
     geminated, ingeminate, multiply by two, redouble, reduplicate,
     repeat, replicate, reproduce, second, secondary, twin, twinned,
     two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold