Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure.
Having nodes or points of real or apparent articulation.
Jointed dolls, more often than not, move about just like you and I. Their arms and other appendages bend at what would be considered natural joints, giving them a movable and posable quality.
(L. junctus: tied, bound) adj. Having nodes or points of articulation, as in the stems of Opuntia.
a toy that can be articulated with the use of joints (typically an action figure like GI Joes).
having nodes, or points of real or apparent divisions along the stem or psuedobulb.
With stems that can be pulled apart easily at the nodes, as in Equisetum.