geniculate (jenikulat)

t.; pret. and pp. geniculated, ppr. geniculating. [ geniculate, geniculated (jē-nik'ū-lāt, -la-ted), a. [L. geniculatus, knotted: see the verb.] Kneed; having a protuberance like a knee or an elbow; in bot., having joints like the knee a little bent: as, a geniculate stem or peduncle.-Geniculate antennæ, those antennæ in which the first joint or scape is long and slender and the rest of the organ is affixed so as to form an angle with it, as in the ants. The Geniculate Antennæ of ( a ) Lucanus, (b) Encyrtus , and (c) Curculio. 2486 geniculate form of antennæ may be combined with other types, and the organs are then distinguished as geniculate clavate, geniculate - capitate, geniculate - serrate, and so on, the last word of the compound indicating the form of the part which succeeds the scape. - Geniculate bodies, the corpora geniculata of the brain. See corpus. - Geniculated crystal. See crystal. - Geniculate ganglion. See ganglion. Geniculate proce es. Same as geniculate bodies. geniculately (jē-nik'ū-lat-li), adv. In a geniculate manner; in the form of a knee or knees: as, antennæ geniculately bent. geniculation (jē-nik-ū-lā'shon), n. [ I saw their Ma e (but not with that superstitious ge niculation and elevation of hands. that the rest used). Coryat , Crudities, I. 3. There are five points in question: the solemn festivities; the private use of either sacrament; geniculation at the eucharist, etc. Bp . Hall , Remains, p. 307. geniculatum (jē-nik-ū-lātum), n.; pl. geniculata (-tä). [NL., neut. of L. geniculatus: see geniculate.] In an at., a geniculate body of the brain. See corpora geniculata (under corpus ), pregeniculatum , postgeniculatum .