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A.
adj. Duplicated, combined in pairs, twin, binate.
geminate leaves
, leaves springing in pairs from the same node, one leaf beside
the other.
1598
HAKLUYT
Voy.
I. 340
We desire of your Maiestie to..continue the geminate disposition of your
beneuolences, both generally to all our subiects, and also priuately to
this our beloued seruant.
1829
LOUDON
Encycl. Plants
1099
Geminate, doubled.
1872
OLIVER
Elem. Bot.
II.
213
Observe the frequently geminate leaves and extra-axillary inflorescence
of the Order.
1880
GRAY
Struct. Bot.
413/1.
1964
R. H. ROBINS
Gen. Ling.
iii. 103
Consonants can be long, or geminate, when the closure or obstruction is
held momentarily before release.
1967
V. NABOKOV
Speak, Memory
(ed. 2) vii. 141
Spacious windows alternated with narrower ones, single or geminate, and
some of these were of frosted glass.
B. n. A doubled consonant.
1885
COOK
tr.
Sievers' O.E. Gram.
(1887) 99
B..occurs..in medial and final positions as a geminate.
1958
Archivum Linguisticum
X. 61
The question of ‘subsidiary’ syllables, perceptibility as against
sonority, whispered speech, dipthongs and geminates.
1965
Language
XLI. 449
Intervocalic p t k indicate a so-called short geminate; pp tt
kk stand for overlong geminates.
Hence geminately
adv., in pairs, doubly.
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