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The knee.

To bend the knee, as in worship.

The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship. Bp. Stillingfleet.

counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. "True, genuine night." Dryden.

at in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more…

Disingenuousness. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.

An ingenuous or naïve girl or young woman, or an actress representing such a person.

combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining. All the means which human ingenuity has contrived. Blair.

Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

In an ingenuous manner; openly; fairly; candidly; artlessly. Being required to explane himself, he ingeniously confessed. Ludlow.

The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.

A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.

An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.

A genus including many species of small mites.