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Webster 1913 Edition
Reduplicate
1.
Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
2.
(Bot.)
Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; – said of the [GREEK]stivation of certain flowers.
Re-du′pli-cate
(-k?t)
, Verb.
T.
[Cf. LL.
reduplicare
.] 1.
To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
Webster 1828 Edition
Reduplicate
REDU'PLICATE
,Verb.
T.
To double.
Definition 2024
reduplicate
reduplicate
English
Adjective
reduplicate (comparative more reduplicate, superlative most reduplicate)
- doubled
- (botany) valvate with the margins curved outwardly
- (botany) folded, with the abaxial surfaces facing one another
Verb
reduplicate (third-person singular simple present reduplicates, present participle reduplicating, simple past and past participle reduplicated)
- (linguistics) To repeat a word or section of a word in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with modification of one of the repetitions.
Related terms
Italian
Adjective
reduplicate f
- feminine plural of reduplicato
References
- ↑ “reduplicate” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).