Definitions for podpɒd

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

podpɒd(n.; v.)pod•ded, pod•ding.

(n.)an elongated seed vessel that splits easily along the sides at maturity, as that of the pea or bean.
Category: Botany
an insect egg case.
Category: Entomology
a streamlined enclosure, housing, or detachable container, esp. on an aircraft or other vehicle.
(v.i.)to produce pods.
Category: Botany
to swell out like a pod.

Origin of pod:

1680–90; appar. back formation from podder,podware, alter. of codware bagged vegetables =cod husk, bag (cf. OE codd bag and ON koddi pillow, scrotum) +-ware crops, vegetables

pod′like`(adj.)

podpɒd(n.)

a small herd or school, esp. of seals or whales.
Category: Zoology

Origin of pod:

1825–35, Amer.; perh. identical with pod1

podpɒd(n.)

the straight groove or channel in the body of certain augers or bits.
Category: Building Trades

Origin of pod:

1565–75; orig. uncert.; perh. continuing OE pād covering, cloak, the socket being thought of as something that conceals (though the phonology is irregular)

-pod

a combining form meaning “one having a foot” of the kind or number specified by the initial element; often corresponding to New Latin class names ending in -poda , with -pod used in English to name a single member of such a class: cephalopod.
Category: Affix
Ref: Compare -ped. 3

Origin of -pod:

< NL < Gk -pod-, s. of -pous, adj. der. of poúsfoot

POD

port of debarkation.

P.O.D.

pay on delivery.
Post Office Department.
Category: Philately

Princeton's WordNet

pod, cod, seedcase(noun)
the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
pod, seedpod(noun)
a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
pod(noun)
a group of aquatic mammals
pod, fuel pod(verb)
a detachable container of fuel on an airplane
pod(verb)
take something out of its shell or pod
"pod peas or beans"
pod(verb)
produce pods, of plants

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

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

Wiktionary

POd(Adjective)
Annoyed, irritated, angry; depressed, fed up.

Origin: From a special use of Etymology 1. See above.

Webster Dictionary

Pod(noun)
a bag; a pouch
Pod(noun)
a capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous
Pod(noun)
a considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals
Pod(verb)
to swell; to fill; also, to produce pods