From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Geminate \Gem"i*nate\, adjective [L. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to double. See {Gemini}.] (Bot.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. --Gray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Geminate \Gem"i*nate\, verb (used with an object) To double. [R.] --B. Jonson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a doubled or long consonant; "the 'n' in 'thinness' is a geminate"
verb
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
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