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May. 21, 2015

geminate \JEM-uh-nit, -neyt\ adjective 1. Also, geminated. combined or arranged in pairs; twin; coupled. verb 1. to make or become doubled or paired. Quotes The twins are a complete organism: they speak their own language, "Aeolian" (named after Aeolus, the wind god); their abiding interest is in their private game of Bep -- "the great geminate game" of lying entwined, head to tail, in an echo of their position in the womb. -- Salman Rushdie, "The Stuff of Marvels," New York Times, October 4, 1981 Origin Geminate is related to the Latin word for "twin," geminus. It entered English in the late 1500s.

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