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Found 4 hits - Term: geminate, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
geminate \gem"inate\, a. l. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to
   double. see gemini. bot.
   in pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate
   flowers. --gray.
   1913 webster
see also:
gemini 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
geminate \gem"inate\, v. t.
   to double. r. --b. jonson.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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"
see also:
reduplicate pair 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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





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