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 Rangachari, K.

V. double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Rottboellia.Sessile spikelets geminate in all except the uppermost joints 26.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

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 Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

The cells upon which the ovicells are placed are always geminate, that is to say, have a smaller cell growing out from one side.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John