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reduplicate


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Reduplicate  \Re*du"pli*cate\  (r?*d?"pl?*k?t),  a.  [Pref.  re-  + 
  duplicate:  cf  L.  reduplicatus  Cf  {Redouble}.] 
  1.  Double;  doubled;  reduplicative;  repeated. 
 
  2.  (Bot.)  Valvate  with  the  margins  curved  outwardly;  --  said 
  of  the  ?stivation  of  certain  flowers. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Reduplicate  \Re*du"pli*cate\  (-k?t),  v.  t.  [Cf.  LL 
  reduplicare.] 
  1.  To  redouble;  to  multiply;  to  repeat. 
 
  2.  (Gram.)  To  repeat  the  first  letter  or  letters  of  (a  word). 
  See  {Reduplication},  3. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  reduplicate 
  v  1:  form  by  reduplication,  as  of  sounds  or  morphemes  of  a  word 
  2:  make  or  do  or  perform  again  [syn:  {duplicate},  {double},  {repeat}, 
  {replicate}] 




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