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Definition of 'POD'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) pod
an elongated seed vessel that splits easily along the sides at maturity, as that of the pea or bean.

2.  pod
an insect egg case.

3.  pod
a streamlined enclosure, housing, or detachable container, esp. on an aircraft or other vehicle.

4. (v.i.) pod
to produce pods.

5.  pod
to swell out like a pod.

6. (n.) pod
a small herd or school, esp. of seals or whales.

7. (n.) pod
the straight groove or channel in the body of certain augers or bits.

8.  POD
port of debarkation.

Definition of 'POD'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) pod, cod, seedcase
the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)

2. (noun) pod, seedpod
a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant

3. (noun) pod
a group of aquatic mammals

4. (verb) pod, fuel pod
a detachable container of fuel on an airplane

5. (verb) pod
take something out of its shell or pod
"pod peas or beans"

6. (verb) pod
produce pods, of plants

Definition of 'POD'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) pod
the part of a plant that contains a seed
peas in a pod

Definition of 'POD'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) POD
a bag; a pouch

2. (noun) POD
a capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous

3. (noun) POD
a considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals

4. (verb) POD
to swell; to fill; also, to produce pods

Translation of 'POD'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the long seed-case of the pea, bean etc.
Afrikaans: peul	Arabic: قَرْن الفول او اللوبيا	Bulgarian: ушулка
Brazilian: vagem	Czech: lusk	German: die Hülse
Danish: bælg	Greek: φλούδα	Spanish: vaina
Estonian: kaun, kõder	Farsi: غلاف؛ پوست	Finnish: palko
French: cosse	Hebrew: תַּרמִיל	Hindi: फली
Croatian: mahuna	Hungarian: hüvely	Indonesian: polong
Icelandic: (fræ)belgur	Italian: baccello	Japanese: さや
Korean: 꼬투리, 깍지	Lithuanian: ankštis	Latvian: pāksts
Malay: lenggai	Dutch: dop	Norwegian: belg, skjelm
Polish: strąk	Persian: پوش يا پوست نخود يا لوبيا	Pashto: د لوبيا يا نخود پوست
Portuguese: vagem	Romanian: păstaie	Russian: стручок
Slovak: struk	Slovenian: strok	Serbian: mahuna
Swedish: skida, balja, kapsel	Thai: ฝักถั่ว	Turkish: tohum zarfı
Taiwanese: 豆莢	Ukrainian: стручок	Urdu: پھلي
Vietnamese: quả đậu	Chinese: 豆荚
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