Pod

n.	1.	A bag; a pouch.
	2.	(Bot.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.
	3.	(Zool.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; - said of seals. Pod auger an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted.
v. i.	1.	To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods. [imp. & p. p. Podded; p. pr. & vb. n. Podding.]

Noun	1.	pod - the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) Synonyms: cod, seedcase
	2.	pod - a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant Synonyms: seedpod
	3.	pod - a group of aquatic mammals
	4.	pod - a detachable container of fuel on an airplane Synonyms: fuel pod
Verb	1.	pod - take something out of its shell or pod; "pod peas or beans"
	2.	pod - produce pods, of plants

pod - Not to be confused with P.O.D.. 1. (Allegedly from abbreviation POD for "Prince Of Darkness") A Diablo 630 (or, latterly, any letter-quality impact printer). From the DEC-10 PODTYPE program used to feed formatted text to it. 2. Plain Old Documentation.

Print / Publishing On Demandarmy, bark, bay window, boll, bran, bunch, burr, capsule, case, chaff, cod, colony, corn shuck, cornhusk, corporation, drift, drive, drove, flock, follicle, gam, gang, herd, host, hull, husk, jacket, kennel, legume, legumen, litter, pack, palea, paunch, pease cod, peel, pericarp, pot, pride, rind, school, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, shell, shoal, shuck, silique, skin, skulk, sloth, slough, trip, troop

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