Bent like a knew.

Latin geniculare = to flex the knee, hence, a bent knee.

Abruptly bent; zigzag.

a. (L. geniculatus, having knee joints, joints) bent like a knee; bent abruptly at the nodes.

Like a little knee; the medial geniculates and the lateral geniculates are nuclei in the walls of the thalamus of the brain.

sharply bent in a kneelike fixed position; applied to peduncular segments of antenna 1, or to distal segments of maxilliped palp, or some peraeopods of certain Haustoriidae

bent at a sharp angle

L. geniculo, to bend the knee, from genu, knee. Lateral and medial geniculate nuclei.

Abruptly and clearly bent or twisted.

bent sharply (strongly elbowed)

Bent like a series of knees.

(L. little knee): See lateral and medial geniculate bodies.

Bent sharply, like a knee.

bent abruptly like a knee joint.