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geminous

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

double; appearing or growing in pairs

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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