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noun 
  1. The flat, roundish bone in the knee.
Translations: 
  • French: rotule
  • German: Kniescheibe
  • Italian: rotula
    1. Italian, rotula
    2. Spanish: rótula
verb (kneecap, p, ed)
  1. (transitive) To destroy the kneecaps of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees, as a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists.
Etymology: knee + cap

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