geminate

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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

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 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.

Mouth-spots two, or one, with a distinct construction; flagella symmetrically arranged; nucleus bilobed or geminate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various