knee

Noun

• the part of a trouser leg that provides the cloth covering for the knee

• joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee

• hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  stifle , knee joint , human knee , articulatio genus , genu