geniculate
/dʒɪˈnɪkjʊlət
/adjective Anatomy
Bent at a sharp angle.The corpus profile is weakly concavoconvex and there are short trails, the dorsal being strongly geniculate....
- Further, the blood flow was of benefit to the knee through the geniculate arteries.
- This species differs from B. variabilis in the absence of a strongly recurved element with a flaring base and the lack of a geniculate element in the apparatus.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin geniculatus, from geniculum 'small knee, joint (of a plant)'.
- precognizance
- precognizant
- precognize
- precognosce
- precoital
- precoitally
- precolonial
- pre-Columbian
- precolumn
- precoma
- pre-combustion
- pre-come
- precommissural
- pre-communion
- precompetitive
- precompiled
- precompose
- precomposed
- precompress
- precompression
- preconceited
- preconceive
- preconceived
- preconception
- preconceptional