podo-

1. variant of pod- before a consonant.

   podotheca.

Example Sentences

Authorities tell AL.com that 23-year-old Mackenzie Podo lost control of her motorcycle and crashed Saturday.

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The Podo camera launched on Kickstarter in September 2016 with the goal of shipping by December of that same year.

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President and co-founder of Podo Labs, Eddie Lee, tells me they still have between 6,000 to 8,000 units left to send out, so it’s now been two years since that original ship date.

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The podos were hard to see in the thickets near Kitum Cave, because they did not grow large in that valley, but I noticed a young podo that was seven feet thick and close to a hundred feet tall.

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I tried to imagine what it must have been like when herds of elephants could have been seen moving through a forest of podo trees as large as sequoias: only ten years ago, before the trouble, Mount Elgon had been one of the earth’s crown jewels.

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When To Use

What does podo- mean?

The combining form podo- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “foot.” It is occasionally used in scientific terms, especially in biology and medicine.The form podo- comes from Greek poús, meaning “foot.” The Latin cognate of poús is pēs, “foot,” and is the source of several combining forms related to the lower extremities, including -ped, -pede, ped-, and pedi-. Discover more at our Words That Use articles for each of these four forms.What are variants of podo-?When combined with words or word elements that begin with a vowel, podo- becomes pod-, as in podalgia. The form podo- also shares an origin with the combining forms -pod, -poda, -pode, -podium, and -podous. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use articles for all six forms.