Definition of Monopod

1. Noun. A portable stand with one leg, used to support a camera or telescope. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monopod

1. a one-legged support for a camera [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monopod

monophysitical
monophysitism
monophyte
monoplane
monoplane flying fish
monoplanes
monoplasmatic
monoplast
monoplastic
monoplasts
monoplegia
monoploid
monoploids
monoploidy
monopneumona
monopod (current term)
monopode
monopodes
monopodia
monopodial
monopodially
monopodies
monopodium
monopods
monopody
monopolar
monopolar cautery
monopole
monopoler
monopolers

Literary usage of Monopod

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Botanic Terms: With Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1900)
"... monopod'ium (той;, ... a foot), a stem of a single and continuous axis ; adj. monopod'ial ..."

2. Fonts and Font Covers by Francis Bond, Frederick Charles Eden (1908)
"the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, nevertheless the monopod or pedestal font was by no means rare. An interesting set of examples illustrates the gradual ..."

3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... it does a shared monopoly of national television journalism —Detroit %ews. 23 Sept. 1981 There still appears to be no use of monopod ..."

4. The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and by Theodore Winthrop (1863)
"... gesticulating and clutching the air with two hoofed arms, — or whether a monopod, alighted on his nose and lifting on high a quintette of terminations, ..."

5. Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well by Darrell Arlynn Amyx, Patricia Lawrence (1975)
"Loose, hasty work, with slashing incisions, the figure a "monopod". Assigned by Seeberg, loc. cit., to his "Group of the Soldier-Dancers". ..."

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