geminate

[Latin gem in at us, pa. par. of gemino =to double; geminus twin-born.] Bot.: United or collected in pairs. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. geminate-flowers, s. pl. Bot.: Twin flowers; flowers produced in pairs, geminate-leaves, s. pl. Bot.: Leaves arranged in pairs; leaves springing from the same node, but not opposite to each other. *gem-i-nāte, v . t . [Fr. géminer ; Ital. gem in are ; Sp. geminer.] [GEMINATE, a.] To double. *gem-i-nā-tion, s. [Latin geminatio , from gem in at us , pa. par. of gemino =to double.] 1. The act of doubling; duplication. "They admit a gemination of principal parts."Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. iii., ch. xv. 2. Duplication; reduplication; an increasing two twofold. "If the evil be in the sense and in the conscience both, there is a gemination of it."-Bacon: Colors of Good and Evil , § 8.