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geniculate

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Borrowed from Latin geniculātus (“with bended knee”), from geniculum (“little knee”) +‎ -ātus (“-ate”, adjectival suffix).

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geniculate (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy, botany) Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee.
    a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal
  2. Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
  3. (anatomy) Relating to a geniculate nucleus.

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geniculate (third-person singular simple present geniculates, present participle geniculating, simple past and past participle geniculated)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To form joints or knots on.
    • 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory:
      a ferulaceous caul, of two Cubits heighth, geniculated, and hard

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Latin

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geniculāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of geniculātus
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