gemini

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Noun Plural
• HYPHEN: gem=i=ni

CIDE DICTIONARY

gemini, n. pl. [L., twins, pl. of geminus; cf. Skr. jmi related as brother or sister.].

 A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gemini, n.
1 a constellation, traditionally regarded as contained in the figures of twins.
2 a the third sign of the zodiac (the Twins). b a person born when the sun is in this sign.

Derivative

Geminean n. & adj.

Etymology

ME f. L, = twins

THESAURUS

gemini

ATDA, ATS, Alouette, Anna, Apollo, Ariel, Atlas-Score, Biosatellite, Castor and Pollux, Comsat, Cosmos, Courier, Diapason, Discoverer, ERS, Early Bird, Echo, Elektron, Explorer, GATV, Injun, Intelsat, Lofti, Luna, Lunar Orbiter, Lunik, Mariner, Mars probes, Mercury, Midas, Nimbus, OAO, OGO, OSO, Pageos, Pegasus, Pioneer, Proton, Ranger, Relay, Samos, San Marco, Secor, Siamese twins, Sputnik, Surveyor, Syncom, Telstar, Transit, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Twin Stars, Vanguard, Viking, Voskhod, WRESAT, Zond, artificial satellites, exact mates, fraternal twins, identical twins, pair of twins, spacecraft, twins

ROGET THESAURUS

gemini

Duality

N duality, dualism, duplicity, biplicity, biformity, polarity, two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins, fellows, yoke, conjugation, dispermy, doublets, dyad, span, two, twin, dual, dualistic, double, binary, binomial, twin, biparous, dyadic, conduplicate, duplex, biduous, binate, diphyletic, dispermic, unijugate, tete-a-tete, coupled, conjugate, both, both the one and the other.