geniculate 🔊 adj Etymology PIE word *ǵónu Learned borrowing from Latin geniculātus (“with bended knee”), from geniculum (“little knee”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal 2 Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
Derived terms colliculogeniculate , colliculosuprageniculate, corticogeniculate , extrageniculate , geniculate ganglion , geniculately , geniculate nucleus , geniculo- , infrageniculate, intergeniculate , intrageniculate , parabigeminogeniculate, perigeniculate, postgeniculate, pregeniculate, reticulogeniculate , retinogeniculate , retrogeniculate , spleniogeniculate, subgeniculate , suprageniculate , tectogeniculate, thalamogeniculate , transgeniculate
geniculate 🔊 verb UK /dʒɪˈnɪk.jʊ.leɪt/ · US /d͡ʒəˈnɪk.jəˌleɪt/
Etymology From Latin geniculātus (more at etymology 1), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
a ferulaceous caul, of two Cubits heighth, geniculated, and hard1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory: