A shell, husk, esp. the shell or outer covering of a nut, which encloses the kernel; also the pod of peas or beans, etc. Obsolete.

The shell, pod, or husk of peas and beans; the outer covering or rind of any fruit or seed.

A pod of a pea, bean, or other leguminous plant (now historical). Also: †a fruit or seed vessel of various other plants, especially when resembling a…

The husk or sheath of a seed; the hull or shell of a fruit; a pod or seed-vessel; †figurative an empty person who has ‘nothing in him’. (See also…

A hull or husk (of fruit, grain, etc.); an outer covering or shell. Obsolete or dialect.

An elongated, seed-bearing fruit formed from a single carpel that splits along the sides on ripening; spec. that of plants of the families Brassic…

The outer covering of a seed, etc.; a husk, pod (e.g. pea-shell); †rind (of pomegranates, etc.); putamen, pericarp.

A husk, pod, or shell; esp. the outer covering or strippings of Indian corn, chestnuts, hickory nuts, etc. See corn-shuck, n.

The calyx of a flower. Cf. husk, n.1 1b.

Botany. A long pod-like seed-vessel.

A seed-pod of a leguminous plant; sometimes used of other seed-vessels.

a husk resembling a hose or stocking.

A short pod containing seed; a silicle.

A small short seed-pod.

= siliqua, n. 2.

= silicula, n.