pod

/pɑd/

/pɒd/

Other forms: pods; podded; podding

A pod is a case that holds a plant's seeds. When you buy fresh peas from the farmer's market, they come still in their pod.

In many plants, seeds grow in groups, nestled within a pod. Peas are one such plant, and many other legumes and flowers have seed pods as well. The expression "two peas in a pod" refers to the way seeds are clustered together within the pod, and means "very similar to each other." Pod comes from the fifteenth century term podware, "seed of legumes or grain."

Definitions of pod

1. noun

   the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
   synonyms: cod, seedcase

   types:

   pea pod, peasecod

   husk of a pea; edible in some garden peas

   type of:

   husk

   outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds
2. noun

   a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
   synonyms: seedpod

   types:

   legume

   the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case

   peanut

   underground pod of the peanut vine

   screw bean

   spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed

   cowage

   pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey

   loment

   seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments

   chickpea, garbanzo

   the seed of the chickpea plant

   lentil

   the fruit or seed of a lentil plant

   pea

   the fruit or seed of a pea plant

   field pea

   seed of the field pea plant

   black-eyed pea, cowpea

   fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

   type of:

   fruit

   the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
3. verb

   take something out of its shell or pod
   “pod peas or beans”

   type of:

   shell

   remove from its shell or outer covering
4. verb

   produce pods, of plants
   type of:

   acquire, develop, get, grow, produce

   come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
5. noun

   a group of aquatic mammals
   type of:

   animal group

   a group of animals
6. noun

   a detachable container of fuel on an airplane
   synonyms: fuel pod

   type of:

   container

   any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)