Geniculate

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  • adjective. Bent abruptly, as a knee.
  • adjective. Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • To form joints or knots in.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent
  • transitive verb. To form joints or knots on.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee.
  • adjective. Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
  • verb. To form joints or knots on.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. bent at a sharp angle
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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    crooked  
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