[
UK
/pˈɒd/
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[ US /ˈpɑd/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑd/ ]
NOUN
- the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
- a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
- a detachable container of fuel on an airplane
- a group of aquatic mammals
VERB
- produce pods, of plants
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take something out of its shell or pod
pod peas or beans
How To Use pod In A Sentence
- In 100 days we saw two pods of dolphins, a pod of blue whales and a few marine birds. Times, Sunday Times
- seat the camera on the tripod
- The auctioneer's podium faced a wall hung with six sets of mounted antlers each side of a large red deer's head. Times, Sunday Times
- The largest of these primitive ‘trees’ were giant lycopods reaching upwards of 20 meters, but most of the plants grew to less than a meter above the ground.
- So I opened each pod one by one, plucking the beans inside.
- This is a composite image of the 1st pair of pleopods and the outer branch (exopodite) of the right (animal's left) pair that came apart during the removal operation (each pleopod has an outer and an inner branch). Archive 2007-12-01
- The fact that I first met it as part of a pavlova didn't help: the deep clouds of snow-white sugar-cake need a fruit with a sting in its tail (the Antipodeans are bang on with their inclusion of passion fruit) if the dessert isn't to cloy. Tender delights
- The Slow-worm (_Anguis fragilis_) is limbless, and so are the members of the sub-class Apoda among the Hormones and Heredity
- At twenty thousand meters, with the pods still traveling at a high velocity, parachutes billowed out from the same boxes that had contained the glider wings.
- Female cockroaches carry their fertilized eggs around in these pod-like sacks called ootheca. Boing Boing