cocoa pod
noun
The fruit of the cacao tree, from which cocoa beans are extracted.
- Cocoa pods, borne directly on the trunk and larger branches of the tree, are typically a squat spindle shape with a furrowed, leathery rind which is yellow to reddish when the fruit is ripe, containing 20 to 50 seeds embedded in a mucilaginous pulp..
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Abraham Rees (1743–1825), Presbyterian minister and encyclopaedist.