geminate

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

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

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.

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

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