geminate
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The spikelets are small, 1/20 to 1/14 inch, geminate, one short and the other long pedicelled, appressed to the rachis, elliptic, silky with slender crisped hairs, pale green or purplish.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
He believed that the words marriage, freedom, fortune, which he had put into her mind, would geminate and flower into wishes by which he could profit; he imagined that her coldness was mere dissimulation.
From The Alkahest by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Male spikelets are geminate, one sessile and one pedicelled, 2-flowered or imperfect, and with four glumes, which are subequal.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Rottboellia.Sessile spikelets geminate in all except the uppermost joints 26.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
V. double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
