noun
pod
PAHD/pɑːd/
A plant's seed case, especially that of peas or beans.
The split pea pod exposes a row of round seeds.
Etymology
Pod appears earlier in podware, meaning legume seed or seed grain. This establishes an early connection with seeds, but the origin of the word for their enclosing case remains uncertain.
In context
there's a seed pod that's that's almost ready to uh to burst open remember we want to remove all of these that tells a plant to uh to stop flowering
More examples
- The bean pods hang beneath the leaves.
- You can eat snow peas with the pods still on.
- The dry pod splits open and releases its seeds.
Forms
pod · pods
Similar words
- seedpod
- Explicitly names a plant's seed case, avoiding other pod meanings.
- capsule
- In botany, a dry seed case that splits open when mature.