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kneepan

kneepan noun: the kneecap; the patella.

Noun

kneepan (plural kneepans)

  1. The kneecap; the patella.
    • by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans.1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 11

kneepan meaning in Tamil and Telugu

kneepan in Tamil

முட்டிக்கால்

kneepan in Telugu

kneepan, kneecap or patella
మోకాలి చిప్ప mōkāli cippa

Forms of kneepan

pluralkneepans

Origin of kneepan

From knee + pan.

Questions about kneepan

What does kneepan mean?
Kneepan means the kneecap; the patella.
What is kneepan in Tamil?
Kneepan in Tamil is முட்டிக்கால். See Kneepan meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is kneepan?
Kneepan is a noun.
What is the plural of kneepan?
The plural of kneepan is kneepans.

Words near kneepan in the dictionary

  1. kneels before
  2. kneels down
  3. kneen
  4. kneepad
  5. kneepads
  6. kneepan
  7. kneepans
  8. kneepiece
  9. kneepieces
  10. kneepit
  11. kneepits

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kneepan (page history and authors); kneepan (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); మోకాలి చిప్ప (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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