Genuflexuous

/dʒɛn.juːˈflɛk.ʃu.əs/ adjective

Definition

Having the quality of being flexible or capable of bending at the knee; relating to knee-flexing movement.

Etymology

From genu (knee) + flexuosus (Latin: full of bends, winding), creating an adjective describing something with the characteristic of flexible knee movement. The -uous suffix indicates fullness of that quality.

Kelly Says

Genuflexuous is so rare you might never encounter it, but it's a beautiful linguistic creation—it took the flexible, winding quality of Latin flexuosus and married it to knee-bending, creating a word for supple, bendy knees!

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