This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. A flat triangular bone located at the front of the knee joint. Also called kneecap.

n. A dish-shaped anatomical formation.

n. A pan or dish in ancient Rome.

n. The sesamoid bone of the knee; the kneecap.

n. A small dish, pan, or vase.

n. The kneecap; the kneepan; the cap of the knee.

n. A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.

n. A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.

n. A small pan, vase, or dish.

n. In anatomy, a small movable bone situated in front of the knee-joint, which it helps to form. Also called knee-pan, kneecap, rotula, or great sesamoid. See cuts under knee-joint, Catarrhina, and Elephantinæ.

n. In zoology: A cotyle; a cup-like formation.

n. A limpet of the genus Patella.

n. In entomology, the first joint of the coxa.

n. [capitalized] [NL.] In conchology, a Linnean genus of gastropods, type of the family Patellidæ, to which very different limits have been assigned.

n. In botany, an orbicular apothecium with a marginal rim.

n. a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint

n. type genus of the family Patellidae: common European limpets

"The patella is a great defence to the front of the knee-joint, and distributes upon a large and tolerably even surface, during kneeling, the pressure which would otherwise fall upon the prominent ridges of the condyles; it also affords leverage to the Quadriceps femoris."

os sesamoideum    sesamoid bone    sesamoid    mollusk genus   

ligamentum patellæ   

patellae   

patellate    patellar    patellar reflex   

kneepan    rotula    kneecap   

Adela    Annabella    Arabella    Bela    Bella    Brunella    Capella    Cela    Cinderella    Corella   

tibia    femur    scapula    humerus    Morse    patellar    periosteum    metatarsus    acetabulum    humeri