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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Bent abruptly, as a knee.
  2. adj. Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To form joints or knots in.
  2. Kneed; having a protuberance like a knee or an elbow; in botany, having joints like the knee a little bent: as, a geniculate stem or peduncle.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee.
  2. adj. Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
  3. v. obsolete, rare, transitive To form joints or knots on.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent
  2. v. rare To form joints or knots on.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. bent at a sharp angle

Etymologies

  1. Latin geniculatus ("with bended knee"), from geniculum, diminutive of genu ("knee"). See the Indo-European root genu-. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin geniculātus, with bended knee, from geniculum, diminutive of genū, knee; see genu-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “In 1999, researchers from Berkley and Harvard inserted electrodes into the brains of anesthetized cats that monitored the activity of 177 neurons located in the lateral geniculate nucleus, a key visual processing center.”

    Dollhouse: Eyeball Cameras

  • “This signal is then processed through four other layers of the retina and passes through the optic nerve to the lateral geniculate nucleus.”

    Fictionaut: Sugar and Saline

  • “It is basically shingles of the geniculate ganglion, and it explains every single one of the patient's symptoms!”

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  • “By suturing shut one of a kitten's eyes at various stages of development and for various periods of time, Hubel and Wiesel (1970) showed that certain cortical and thalamic areas supporting binocular vision (specifically, ocular dominance columns and cells in the lateral geniculate body) will not develop normally unless kittens receive patterned visual stimulation during the 4th to 12th weeks of life.”

    Innateness and Language

  • “So far, the most compelling evidence she provides concerns the relationship between orbit convergence (movement of the eyes from the sides to the front of the face) and the activity of parvocellular and magnocellular neurons in the LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) of the primate thalamus.”

    Snakes in Primate Vision

  • “Cells in the retina, lateral geniculate body (a relay station in the brain) and in the visual cortex respond mainly to edges (step changes in luminance) but not to homogeneous surface colours; so a line drawing or cartoon stimulates these cells as effectively as a ‘half tone’ photograph.”

    The Cognitive Science of Art: Ramachandran's 10 Principles of Art, Principles 1-3

  • “The clerk Flinx encountered was straight of body but mentally geniculate from a quarter century of answering the same inane questions.”

    Orphan Star

  • “This grass is an annual with stems erect or with a geniculate base, tufted, slender or stout; some of the lower nodes of the geniculate part of the stems bear roots; the internodes are green or purple tinged and glabrous.”

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

  • “This is an annual with stems ascending from a prostrate or geniculate base, glabrous and varying in length from 1 to 3 feet.”

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

  • “Stems are tufted, very slender, widely creeping on all sides, purplish, but the flowering branches are erect or ascending from a geniculate base, leafy at base, the nodes of the creeping branches rooting and bearing tufts of branches which finally become independent plants at each node, the creeping branches vary in length from 1 to 3 feet and the erect ones from 10 to 18 inches or more.”

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

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Other words for ‘geniculate’

  1. crooked

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  3. canthus
  1. epicondyle
  2. fluvial
  3. cricoarytenoid
  1. hypoglossal
  2. dimorphic
  3. basolateral
  1. smearing
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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. kneed
  2. geniculated
  3. kneejointed
  4. postgeniculatum
  5. subgeniculate
  6. calandrinæ
  1. elbowed
  2. geniculate
  3. geniculately
  4. geniculatum
  5. infracted
  6. visual area
  1. visual cortex
  2. radiatio optica
  3. striate area
  4. striate cortex
  5. first visual area
  6. optic radiation
  1. area 17 of brodmann
  2. auditory area
  3. auditory cortex
  4. brodmann's area 17
  5. antennariidæ
  6. branch
  1. broken
  2. calandridæ
  3. flagellum
  4. geniculation
  5. genu
  6. Geum
  1. histeridæ
  2. lucanus
  3. ring-joint
  4. scape

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