Geminous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Geminous is an adjective meaning double; appearing or growing in pairs.
Meaning
double; appearing or growing in pairs.
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bigeminal, geminiflorous, geminate, binate, didymous, pairwise.
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