gemini

pl. [Masc. pl. of Lat. geminus twin, produced at the same birth with another.] Astron.: The third of the zodiacal constellations, The name is given from two conspicuous stars, Alpha and Beta Geminorum, the former named, after the example of the Greeks, Castor; the latter, Pollux. If an imaginary line be drawn through the belt of Orion and two bright stars in the line of the belt, it will nearly pa through Gemini. If again Regulus and Aldebaran be above the hori zon, and the space between them be equally divided, the point of bisection will be in Gemini. Castor is a remarkable binary star of the first magnitude, Pollux is of the second. The sun enters the third sign of the zodiac which is different from the actual constellation about May 21, and pa es from it to about June 21. Cancer any) is used as a kind of mild oath or interjection; but in this caso the word is, according to Mr. Palmer ( Folk - Etymology ), identical with Ger. O Gemine; Dut. Jemy, Jemini , which are shortened forms of Lat. O Jesu Domine , or perhaps merely from Jesu meus ; Ital. Giesu mio . gem-i-nif-lo-rous, a . [Latin geminus = twin, double; flos (gen it. flor is )=a flower; Eng. adj. suff. -ous .] Bot .: Twin-flowered; having two flowers growing together.