geminous

English

Etymology

Latin geminus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛmɪnəs

Adjective

geminous (not comparable)

1. double; appearing or growing in pairs
   • 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (6th edition, book 3, chapter 15)

     And this the practice of Christians hath acknowledged, who have baptized these geminous births.

   • 1861 March, “Critical Notices of Works on India and the East”, in Calcutta Review, volume 36, page v:

     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.

   geminous teeth

References

• “geminous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Minogues