monoped

English

Alternative forms

• monopod

Etymology

From mono- +‎ -ped.

Noun

monoped (plural monopeds)

1. Someone or something that has one leg.

   Synonym: uniped

   • 1897, Walter W. Felts, The Voter's Handbook: Natural Law in the Business World, page 82:

     While all animals are not bipeds, there is no animal that is a monoped.

   • 2007, Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May Alcott's Civil War, page 8:

     After "the lively monoped" was settled, Nurse and "a big Prussian who spoke no English" noticed "the echo of a sob" from a twelve-year-old drummer boy who was having a nightmare.

   • 2007, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control:

     A monoped can move only by hopping, which consists of alternating flight and stance phases.

   • 2014, Aviva Drescher, Leggy Blonde: A Memoir:

     Being a monoped was an added pregnancy complication.

Adjective

monoped (not comparable)

1. One-legged; monopedal.
   • 1945, Aviation Week and Space Technology - Volume 44, page 35:

     New-type monoped landing gear is to be fitted, and wing wheels are to retract.

   • 1975, Ronald C. Adams, Alfred Daniel, Lee Rullman, Games, sports, and exercises for the physically handicapped, page 241:

     The final forms of each technique are similar, the exceptions being that stemming skills are not contained in the monoped technique. The numerous methods used to teach the biped skier are also applicable to the monoped student.

   • 1989, Design - Issues 487-492, page 43:

     Curling organic orange leather armchairs are superbly stylish and comfortable only surpassed by zoomorphic monoped wood and metal tables.