Definitions for geniculate

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geniculate ge·nic·u·late

Spelling: [juh-nik-yuh-lit, -leyt]

IPA: /dʒəˈnɪk yə lɪt, -ˌleɪt/

Geniculate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 669 anagrams from letters in geniculate (aceegilntu).

Definitions for geniculate

adjective

1. having kneelike joints or bends.
2. bent at a joint like a knee.

Origin of geniculate

1660-70; Latin geniculātus knotted, equivalent to genicul(um) small knee; knot (gen(u) knee + -i- -i- + -culum -cule

Examples for geniculate

geniculate, bent abruptly, like a knee (genu), as many stems.

Elaters simple or branched, often geniculate, more or less heteromorphous, the fibres wanting or indistinct.

Scape: the long basal joint of a geniculate antenna in Coleoptera; usually applied to the three basal joints, as in Hymenoptera.