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Pod   /pɑd/   Listen
noun
Pod  n.  
1.
A bag; a pouch. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
2.
(Bot.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit.
3.
(Zool.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; said of seals.
Pod auger, or pod bit, an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted.


verb
Pod  v. i.  (past & past part. podded; pres. part. podding)  To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.


suffix
-pod  suff.  A combining form or suffix from Gr. poys, podos, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.





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"Pod" Quotes from Famous Books



... Winnie had come into her teens, and little Violetta was no longer the baby; for there were a pair of beautiful twin brothers at Woodlawn, "as near alike," Mrs. Dodge declared, "as two peas in a pod." ...
— Bertie and the Gardeners - or, The Way to be Happy • Madeline Leslie
... in their results may, I think, be in part accounted for by Herbert's great horticultural skill, and by his having hot-houses at his command. Of his many important statements I will here give only a single one as an example, namely, that "every ovule in a pod of Crinum capense fertilised by C. revolutum produced a plant, which I never saw to occur in a case of its natural fecundation." So that here we have perfect, or even more than commonly perfect fertility, in a first cross between two ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin
... along, we sho did fall in and save all us could for de next year. Every kind of seed and pod dat grow'd we saved and dried for next spring or fall planting. Atter folks is once had deir belly aching and growling for victuals, dey ain't never gwine to throw no rations and things away no mo'. Young folks is powerful wasteful, but if something come along to break up deir ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves • Works Projects Administration
... plantations of the cocoa-tree, from the seed of which chocolate is made. The cocoa-pod resembles a small, rough melon, and is of a dark-red colour, full of ...
— The Young Llanero - A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela • W.H.G. Kingston
... Each profession demands brains, and is at its best in coining cute phrases. I've met scores of both tribes, and they're like as peas in a pod." ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy


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