Geminate

geminate
    n 1: a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a
         geminate"
    v 1: form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a
         short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to
         emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: {reduplicate},
         {geminate}]
    2: occur in pairs [syn: {pair}, {geminate}]
    3: arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers" [syn: {pair},
       {geminate}]
    4: arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in
       these words"
    

Geminate \Gem"i*nate\, a. [L. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to
   double. See {Gemini}.] (Bot.)
   In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate
   flowers. --Gray.
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Geminate \Gem"i*nate\, v. t.
   To double. [R.] --B. Jonson.
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39 Moby Thesaurus words for "geminate":
      Janus-like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral,
      binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, conduplicate, copy, disomatous,
      ditto, double, double-faced, dual, dupe, duple, duplex, duplicate,
      geminated, ingeminate, multiply by two, redouble, reduplicate,
      repeat, replicate, reproduce, second, secondary, twin, twinned,
      two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold