What does geminous mean?
Geminous means double; appearing or growing in pairs.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
double; appearing or growing in pairs.
geminous teeth
And this the practice of Christians hath acknowledged, who have baptized these geminous births.
The reader will also observe that in the example just cited 'justice' is rendered by 'equality and justice;' on the same page he will find carelessness and inadvertency' where the original has only neglect; and so he will find throughout the book such geminous and even tergeminous renderings to the number of at least two hundred.
Use geminous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Geminous means double; appearing or growing in pairs.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
geminous teeth
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