pod
noun /pɒd/
/pɑːd/
- enlarge imagea long thin case filled with seeds that develops from the flowers of some plants, especially peas and beans
- a pea pod
- a vanilla pod
- a small plastic container with something inside it
- Single-use coffee pods are the fastest growing segment of the industry.
- a long narrow container that is hung under an aircraft and used to carry fuel, equipment, weapons, etc.
- part of a spacecraft or a boat that can be separated from the main partTopics Spacec2
- [countable] a small group of sea animals, such as dolphins or whales, swimming together
- a pod of adult dolphins
- a pod of pilot whales
Word Originlate 17th cent.: back-formation from dialect podware, podder ‘field crops’, of unknown origin.