GENUFLECTION

PRONUNCIATION: (jen-yoo-FLEK-shuhn)

MEANING: noun:
1. The act of bending the knee.
2. Servile deference; groveling.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin genuflectere (to bend the knee), from genu (knee) + flectere (to bend). Earliest documented use: 1526.
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GENUFLECTON - the quantum of deference; smallest possible angulation of the knee

GENEFLECTION - a bending of chromosomes

GENUS FLECTION - taxonomic classification of snakes and eels