"Geminate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... several causes; among them may be mentioned an actual formation of parts in unwonted number, hypertrophy or enation, chorisis or fission, disjunction, adhesion of one leaf to another or to the stem, as in some of the leaves called "geminate," wherein the two leaves, though apparently in juxtaposition, yet originate from different parts of the stem, but by coalescence or lack of separation produce the impression as if they sprang from the same node. In the adult state it is not always ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... Sub Classe pontus: Jam Thetis aenea Mugire flammarum procella, & Attonitae trepidare cautes, Et ipsa circum littora percuti Majore fluctu. Sistite barbari, Ferroq; neu simplex, & igni & Naufragio geminate fatum. ...
— The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils • Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski
... — N. duplication; doubling &c v.; gemination, ingemination^; reduplication; iteration &c (repetition) 104; renewal. V. double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat &c 104; renew &c 660. Adj. double; doubled &c v.; bicipital^, bicephalous^, bidental^, bilabiate, bivalve, bivalvular^, bifold^, biform^, bilateral; bifarious^, bifacial^; twofold, two-sided; disomatous^; duplex; double-faced, double-headed; twin, duplicate, ingeminate^; second. Adv. twice, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... or ovate-oblong, as broad as the rachis, glabrous, closely imbricating in two rows (rarely in three or four rows), sessile or rarely geminate on ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar
... illinc belligera latet Sub Classe pontus: Jam Thetis aenea Mugire flammarum procella, & Attonitae trepidare cautes, Et ipsa circum littora percuti Majore fluctu. Sistite barbari, Ferroq; neu simplex, & igni & Naufragio geminate fatum. ...
— The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils • Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski |
