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Genu

Genu \Ge"nu\, n.; pl. Genua. [L., the knee.] (Anat.)

  1. The knee.

  2. The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain.

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genu

n. 1 (label en anatomy zoology) knee 2 A knee-like bend.

WordNet
genu
  1. n. hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella [syn: knee, knee joint, articulatio genus]

  2. [also: genua (pl)]

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Genu

Genu, a Latin word for "knee," may refer to:

  • Genu of internal capsule
  • Genu of the corpus callosum
  • Genu recurvatum
  • Genu valgum
  • Genu varum
  • Genu, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
  • Latin singular of Genus, one of the eight major taxonomic ranks

Usage examples of "genu".

Double Pointers and Flaws, Pins of Uberwald and Genua, First Steps in Pins, Adventures in Acuphilia .

Genu valgum and Genu varum are ordinary deformities and quite common in all classes.

Most civilisations that had acquired the means to build genu ine Artificial Intelligences duly built them, and most of those designed or shaped the consciousness of the AIs to a greater or lesser extent.

As Nanny Ogg would put it, when it’s teatime in Genua it’s Tuesday over here .

She was the most attractive young woman Magrat had ever seen - skin as brown as a nut, hair so blonde as to be almost white, a combination not totally unusual in such an easygoing city as Genua had once been.

Cooking anywhere outside Genua was just heating up things like bits of animals and birds and fish and vegetables until they went brown.

But I hear it passing through the city and I think: that’s what Genua ought to be.

She wasn’t the finest cook in Genua - no-one got near Mrs Gogol’s gumbo, people would almost come back from the dead for a taste of Mrs Gogol’s gumbo - but the comparison was as narrow as that between, say, diamonds and sapphires.

She was a close personal friend of Mrs Gogol and knew that shape is merely a matter of deeply-ingrained personal habit, and if you’re a resident of Genua around Samedi Nuit Mort you learn to trust your judgement rather more than you trust your senses.

As Nanny Ogg would put it, when it's teatime in Genua it's Tuesday over here .

But I hear it passing through the city and I think: that's what Genua ought to be.

She wasn't the finest cook in Genua - no-one got near Mrs Gogol's gumbo, people would almost come back from the dead for a taste of Mrs Gogol's gumbo - but the comparison was as narrow as that between, say, diamonds and sapphires.

She was a close personal friend of Mrs Gogol and knew that shape is merely a matter of deeply-ingrained personal habit, and if you're a resident of Genua around Samedi Nuit Mort you learn to trust your judgement rather more than you trust your senses.

On the Tump, the old castle mound across the river, the big tower, one end of the Grand Trunk that wound more than two thousand miles across the continent to Genua, glittered with semaphore.

I have bulked some of them out with copies of clerk Harold’s analysis of pig production in Genua, sir.