geminate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: gem=i=nate

CIDE DICTIONARY

geminate, a. [L. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to double. See Gemini.].

 In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]

geminate, v. t. 

 To double.  B. Jonson.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

geminate, adj. & v.
--adj. combined in pairs.
--v.tr.
1 double, repeat.
2 arrange in pairs.

Derivative

gemination n.

Etymology

L geminatus past part. of geminare f. geminus twin

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

geminate

Duplication

VB double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate, geminate, repeat, renew.