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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



... Costello dinged with his fist upon the board and would sing a bawdy catch Staboo Stabella about a wench that was put in pod of a jolly swashbuckler in Almany which he did straightways now attack: The first three months she was not well, Staboo, when here nurse Quigley from the door angerly bid them hist ye should ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... Gartner. The difference 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 ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin
... was a unique custom, "the scadding of peas." A pea-pod was slit, a bean pushed inside, and the opening closed again. The full pods were boiled, and apportioned to be shelled and the peas eaten with butter and salt. The one finding the bean on his plate would be married first. ...
— The Book of Hallowe'en • Ruth Edna Kelley
... come and with it the party and here was Kalora—a pretty face peering out from a great pod ...
— The Slim Princess • George Ade
... square inch, the design being the favourite Tudor rose, each petal worked in lace stitch, and raised from the centre which is made of knots worked with golden hair, flat green leaves exquisitely shaded, and a charming bit of the worker's skill in the shape of a pea's pod, open and raised, showing the tiny little peas in a row. An exquisitely worked butterfly with raised wings in lace stitch is on the other side. The grounding of the whole is run with flat gold thread, making a "cloth of gold" ground, ...
— Chats on Old Lace and Needlework • Emily Leigh Lowes


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