monowheel

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noun

A vehicle similar to a unicycle, its rider sitting within or adjacent to the single wheel.

OriginEnglish wheel ← Middle English whel ← Old English hwēol →
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Meanings

nounmonowheel (plural monowheels)

plural monowheels

  1. A vehicle similar to a unicycle, its rider sitting within or adjacent to the single wheel.

    We had bought the monowheel at Portal, where it had been left for sale by an absent missionary; it was a single bicycle wheel with a seat arranged on it […]

    1926, Mary Hastings Bradley, Caravans and Cannibals

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*men-
  2. Proto-Hellenic*mónwos
  3. Ancient Greekμόνος (mónos)
  4. Ancient Greekμονο- (mono-)
  5. Englishmono-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
  7. Proto-Indo-European*kʷekʷléh₂
  8. Proto-Germanic*hweulō
  9. Old Englishhwēol
  10. Middle Englishwhel
  11. Englishwheel
  12. Englishmonowheel

From mono- + wheel.

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APA

monowheel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monowheel

MLA

“monowheel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monowheel. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “monowheel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monowheel.

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