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gemmel

gemmel 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 gemmel

pluralgemmels

Questions about gemmel

What is gemmel the alternative form of?
Gemmel is the alternative form of gemel.

Words near gemmel in the dictionary

  1. gemmating
  2. gemmation
  3. gemmations
  4. gemmative
  5. gemmed
  6. gemmel
  7. Gemmell
  8. Gemmells
  9. gemmels
  10. gemmen
  11. gemmeous

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