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gemelle

gemelle is the alternative form of gemel.

Meaning of gemel

Noun

gemel (plural gemels)

  1. (archaic) A twin (also attributively).
    • half a million which Demon considered henceforth as a loan his cousin should certainly refund him if sanity counted for something on this gemel planet.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 197
  2. One of a pair of small bars placed together.
    • two gemells silver between two griffins passant1698, John Strype, Life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith
  3. (historical) A finger ring which splits into two horizontally.
  4. A pair of trees that fuse together, or are contained in the same trunk.

See all 5 meanings of gemel

Forms of gemelle

pluralgemelles

Questions about gemelle

What is gemelle the alternative form of?
Gemelle is the alternative form of gemel.

Words near gemelle in the dictionary

  1. gemeinschafts
  2. gemeinschaftsgefuhl
  3. gemel
  4. gemeled
  5. gemellary
  6. gemelle
  7. gemelled
  8. gemelles
  9. gemelliparity
  10. gemelliparous
  11. gemellological

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